A few months ago, we heard that former Giants running back and fired Today correspondent Tiki Barber had been cheating on his pregnant wife of 11 years with a 23 year-old intern he met at work. The NY Postclaimed that Tiki had been carrying on behind his wife’s back for two years. His wife was eight months pregnant – with twins – and in the hospital when Tiki (allegedly) told her he was leaving her for his mistress, of whom she supposedly had no inkling. Tiki also has two boys with her, an eight year-old and a six year-old. Tiki’s wife filed for divorce and instead of owning up to his actions and supporting her, the douchebag cried poor and tried to deny her spousal support. He did lose his job at NBC as a result of his poor performance and the hit to his image from this scandal.

Now Tiki is trying to rewrite his past and claim that he didn’t start seeing the 23 year-old until he was already separated. Tiki and his smug ass mistress went on Entertainment Tonight to try and set the record straight. (video above.)They claim to have been only “friends” before Tiki separated from his wife, but the smirks on their faces said otherwise. Here’s more from Popeater:

“We were only friends when I was still married, I was separated, out of my house so it wasn’t until then that we took things to the next level,” he described.

She continued: “Tiki and I were romantically involved when he was separated, and plenty of people who are separated have boyfriends and girlfriends.”

Tiki hopes to keep things normal for his children. “My goal is to not have the kids suffer because of the failings of mine and my soon to be ex-wife.”

“I’m just a normal guy who had a job that people cared about, and maybe there is a standard to live up to that but it’s a hard one, for anyone,” he opined.

Tiki and his ex-wife, who announced their decision to split in April, have four children together.

[From Popeater]

How many cheating bastards have told their mistresses that they were “separated,” and how many have subsequently tried to feed the “just friends” line to their wives after they were busted? It’s so typical and lame. Of course Tiki and his wife weren’t living together when he started sleeping with the intern – his wife was in the hospital due to complications with her pregnancy. My heart bleeds for this guy and his sneering mistress. He may not have any regrets now, but he’ll probably feel much differently once he has two alimony payments a month.