Footballer's Rise After Rape Case

0:00On April 18, back in May 2011, a 19-year-old waitress woke up naked and confused in a premiere in near Real North Wales. She'd blacked out after heavy drinking and had sex with two footballers, Chad Evans and Clayton McDonald. She reported it as rape. McDonald was cleared at trial, but Evans got five years, serving two and a half. The case blew up fast. Evans, then a Sheffield United, lost everything amid massive public outrage. Sponsors pulled out. Evans petitioned against him, even athletes like Jessica and his hill threatened to ditch their namesakes. His career stalled while he sat in prison. Natasha Massey, his girlfriend at the time, never wavered. Her family bank rolled appeals, private eyes, even a 50,000-pound reward for info. That pushed the case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, then the Court of Appeal, quashing the conviction and ordering a retrial in 2016. At the retrial, jurors acquitted Evans, ruling a consensual despite her drunken state.

1:02He clawed back into football, now 37, and a fan favorite at Fleetwood Town. Mary Natasha in 2022, they've got two kids and live large in Cheshire's celeb spots. Meanwhile, the waitress, now in her 30s, banished into a new identity after brutal online abuse shattered her anonymity. She's estranged from family, her old carefree life gone, still haunted by the trauma, while Evans thrives on the pitch this afternoon against, Chesterfield.