Ashley Perez, the ex-wife of golfer Pat Perez, thanked fans for the support she has received since making bombshell allegations against golf star Phil Mickelson.
Ashley, who was married to Pat from 2014 to 2023, shockingly claimed to golf outlet Skratch that Mickelson allegedly showed a naked photograph of himself to her during a tournament week stay in 2015.
She has since shared a message thanking the public for their ‘love and support’ as she vowed to ‘rise up’ against ‘evil’.
‘I will rise up and stand next to the millions of women who have been silenced to protect the evil and darkness that lurks amongst us,’ Ashley wrote in an Instagram story.
‘Thank you dearly for all of the love and support. My heart goes out to the countless other victims,’ she added, including a photo of her in Las Vegas wearing a bedazzled jumpsuit.
In the Skratch report – written by legendary golf writer Alan Shipnuck – Ashley said that the alleged incident involving Mickelson occurred during a 2015 Barclays tournament in New Jersey, when the six-time major winner arranged for the couple to join him at his villa at Liberty National Golf Course.
Ashley Perez, the ex-wife of golfer Pat Perez, thanked fans for support in a social media post
Ashley made bombshell allegations against golf icon Phil Mickelson (pictured) last week
While Pat had excused himself to use the restroom, leaving Ashley and Mickelson alone on the patio, she claimed the golf icon produced his phone and showed her a full-body image of himself naked and aroused.
‘Phil says to me, “I’m going to leave my bedroom door open tonight. When Pat falls asleep I want you to come see me”,’ Ashley told Shipnuck.
According to the outlet, she said she declined his advances and did not immediately tell her husband, saying she had not wanted to create a scene mid-tournament.
When Perez was eventually told, he confronted Mickelson – who the outlet reports ultimately apologized during a corporate outing at the Madison Club in La Quinta, California.
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Mickelson’s attorney, Tom Clare, offered a scathing assessment of the allegations.
‘A small segment of the golf media has decided that because Mr. Mickelson is a successful golfer, every detail of his private and family life is theirs to exploit,’ he said.
‘Recycling mistakes he has already acknowledged as new reporting, and dragging private family matters into public view, is reckless. It is the pursuit of clicks at the expense of the truth. Do better.’
Mickelson was accused of showing a photo of himself naked and erect to Ashley (left), then-wife of fellow golfer Pat Perez (right), in 2015
Mickelson, pictured with his wife Amy, stepped away from golf indefinitely earlier in the year
Mickelson, 56, has not competed since LIV Golf’s South Africa event in March and has cited a private family health matter for his absence.
He missed the Masters, skipped the PGA Championship, and – his five-year exemption from the 2021 PGA Championship having now expired – was not extended a special invitation to this month’s US Open at Shinnecock Hills.
It also emerged last week that he has withdrawn from the field for next month’s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, where he has an exemption to play until he is 60 as a former champion.
The Telegraph reported that Mickelson made the decision two weeks ago, and it will mark the first Open Championship he has missed in 17 years.
The allegations against Mickelson come amid a separate and already-public scandal involving the three-time Masters champion.
Earlier this month, Golf Digest reported that Mickelson had been removed as a member of The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, amid allegations of inappropriate physical contact with a female staff member.
According to multiple sources, Mickelson approached the employee in the clubhouse, made non-consensual and inappropriate physical contact with her, and he was confronted by club officials mid-round before being told to vacate the premises.
A representative confirmed he had resigned from the club.
Mickelson will not play in The Open Championship this year. He won the tournament in 2013
Furthermore, according to the Skratch report, Mickelson had previously departed two other high-end clubs – the Madison Club and The Bridges, also in Rancho Santa Fe – with sources at both saying personal conduct was a primary factor.
A woman who attended a tournament dinner with Mickelson during the same period describes an encounter she characterizes as deeply disturbing.
‘Out of nowhere, Phil started asking the most inappropriate questions about my personal life and then propositioning me in graphic detail,’ she told Skratch.
‘He went on and on about how he had been fantasizing about me and all the things he wanted to do to me. It was horrible.’
However, in a statement provided to the Daily Mail, a spokeswoman for Mickelson branded some of the accusations false as she insisted the golfer’s primary focus at the current time is his family.
‘Some of the allegations circulating about Mr. Mickelson are false, and others revisit mistakes he has already acknowledged, publicly or privately,’ she said. ‘Stacking the disputed claims next to the ones he has owned does not make them credible. It instead contributes to a false and misleading narrative.
‘No person, no article, and no book can present an accurate, complete, or personal story of the life Mr. Mickelson and his family have lived. His story, struggles, and recovery belong to him and to the people who have shared it closely alongside him.
‘Recovery is not a straight line. Throughout their 35-year relationship, his wife, Amy Mickelson, has supported Mr. Mickelson and their family with extraordinary grace, unwavering love, and the belief that people are measured not only by their failures, but by what they do to make them right.
‘Mr. Mickelson’s priority is to become the husband, father, and man his family deserves. Right now, that means giving his full attention to a private family health matter. He understands that parts of his life are public, but his family’s private matters are not.’
