Josh Shaw finally came clean and admitted the story about saving his nephew from drowning was false. Shaw faced pressure as an investigation was launched into the account but it was a fellow teammate who initially outed Shaw about his bogus tale.
Josh Shaw was aggressively confronted by a teammate in the USC locker Monday morning with the player screaming at Shaw to “come clean” about the false hero story.
TMZ Sports spoke with multiple sources in the USC athletic department who all say the same thing, the player who confronted Shaw — a respected member of the defense — was pissed off because he knew the story was bogus and got right in Shaw’s face about it.
During the confrontation, which occurred right after the initial story about Shaw saving his 7-year-old cousin from drowning was posted on a USC media outlet, the player yelled at Shaw, “Why you lying?”
The situation reportedly got very intense very quickly and several teammates rushed in to separate the two before things got violent.
Though Shaw has confessed that the story was lie, it’s still a mystery as to what really happened to cause his injured ankles.
