A massage therapist has come forward alleging improper behavior by Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, adding to six such accusations last week.
“I feel vindicated,” the former Baltimore-based massage therapist told The Baltimore Sun.
The 2015 incident the unnamed woman described had similar hallmarks of other therapists’ experience, in which Tucker allegedly exposed his genitals, brushed the women with his penis and left what looked like ejaculate on the massage tables, The Baltimore Banner reported Thursday.
The alleged behavior got him banned from at least two spas, and the therapists refused to work with him again or cut their sessions short after the incidents, which took place between 2012 and 2016.
Since last week’s initial report, three more therapists have come forward, bringing the total to nine, The Baltimore Banner reported Saturday. They worked at five high-end spas and wellness centers. Two spas told the outlet they had banned Tucker from booking massages.
One of the therapists said she had almost gone public back in 2015 but had feared retaliation. It was not clear on Sunday whether that was the same woman who also spoke to The Baltimore Sun. All the women stayed anonymous.
“It started with him exposing himself to me,” the woman told the outlet, even though she had asked Tucker to wear underwear.
Tucker had been her client on several occasions at two separate spas. The therapist, now 37 and living in West Virginia, said when she told her manager about that and other conduct, she was told Tucker would be assigned to someone else. But when she learned her replacement would be a 19-year-old massage therapist, she said she continued working on Tucker to protect her colleague.
But she said she cut the star athlete off when he began touching her leg during a session.
“He laid face down, and his hand reached up on my inner thigh,” she told The Baltimore Sun.
That’s when she walked out and submitted a written statement to her employer. She said she was fired soon after. She did not contest her termination or go public with her allegations because “it would be me against the king of Baltimore,” she told the newspaper.
In a statement last week, Tucker said he had “never before been accused of misconduct of any kind,” with massage therapists or any other bodywork, and dismissed the initial allegations as “desperate tabloid fodder.”
“Justin’s statement remains the one he posted on X on Thursday,” a rep for Tucker’s agent told The Baltimore Sun.
The NFL has said the allegations were on their radar; the Ravens said they were monitoring the situation.
“We first became aware of the allegations from the reporter investigating this story as they were not previously shared with the NFL,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement. “We take any allegation seriously and will look into the matter.”