In a Sunday interview with ESPN’s “NFL Countdown,” Denver Broncos quarterback called the rumors that he used Human Growth Hormone in 2011 “complete garbage.”
MANNING: Disgusted is how I really feel, sickened by it. I‘m not sure I understand how someone can make something up about somebody, admit he’s made it up and yet somehow it gets published in a story. I don’t understand that. Maybe you can explain it to me or somebody else can. It’s completely fabricated. Complete trash, garbage. There’s some more adjectives that I’d like to be able to use, but it really makes me sick. It makes me sick that it brings Ashley into it. Her medical history, her medical privacy being violated — That makes me sick. I don’t understand that…
LISA SALTERS: Have you ever used HGH or any performance enhancer?
MANNING: Absolutely not. Absolutely not.