CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — Former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield has issued a written apology to his stepmother, Lisa Mayfield, after a slander case from 2009 was settled on Tuesday. The settlement was not disclosed.
Mayfield's statement reads as follows:
"I have previously made statements to the press in which I accused Lisa Mayfield of either murdering my father, Terry Mayfield, or being involved in a conspiracy to murder him. Those statements were made in the heat of my emotional state at the time. I now retract those statements and apologize to Lisa for having made them."
Jeremy Mayfield
Lisa Mayfield filed a lawsuit against her stepson in July of 2009 for slander after Jeremy Mayfield allegedly called her a derogatory name and accused her of killing his father.
Mayfield filed a lawsuit against NASCAR after he was suspended in May 2009 for testing positive for methamphetamine. The suit against NASCAR was dismissed by a federal judge in May 2010.
The judge's ruling pointed to a document Mayfield signed, agreeing to abide by the sport's substance abuse police. That document also prohibits Mayfield from suing NASCAR.
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