Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has become one of the most recognizable players in the WNBA, thanks in part to her outspoken personality and the massive spotlight on the Fever. But that fame has come with a serious downside.<\/p>\n
During a recent appearance on Theo Von\u2019s podcast, Cunningham revealed that she has dealt with stalkers, claiming that the FBI is currently keeping tabs on around 20 people on her behalf.<\/p>\n
Sophie Cunningham\u2019s Stalker<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, an Indiana man named Kevin Singh was charged with felony stalking and intimidation, as well as misdemeanor harassment, after allegedly sending Cunningham a series of threatening and explicit messages on X, according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n One of those messages allegedly read, \u201cYou\u2019re literally down the street from me!\u201d Singh also allegedly continued sending threatening messages after Cunningham\u2019s team sent him a cease-and-desist letter in April.<\/p>\n Singh also allegedly hand-delivered a package addressed to \u201cSophie\u201d at the Fever\u2019s home arena last September, which contained a letter and a Guns N\u2019 Roses T-shirt that had been sprayed with men\u2019s cologne.<\/p>\n 20 Stalkers<\/p>\n While discussing the Fever\u2019s security, Cunningham explained that the increased visibility of the WNBA has its drawbacks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe more you\u2019re visible on TV, you\u2019re gonna get more fans. Like, people are gonna know who you are, and that\u2019s a really great thing. But there\u2019s also a lot of like, kind of crazy people too that like, we do have a lot of stalkers. I know I do. And like, that\u2019s the negative side of things that people don\u2019t think about,\u201d Cunningham said, in a clip shared by Chief Nerd<\/a>.<\/p>\n When Von asked if she has dealt with stalkers personally, Cunningham didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n \u201cOh my gosh. Yeah. Like, I will have to check if I\u2019m even allowed to say this, but like, I like have, I think, 20, I think, people kind of that the FBI are watching for me, me alone,\u201d Cunningham said.<\/p>\n Von then asked for some of their names, which Cunningham said she was \u201cdefinitely not allowed to say.\u201d But she did open up about one of them.<\/p>\n \u201cI know one of them,\u201d Cunningham said, before adding, \u201cI mean, he\u2019s locked away now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cActually, this is public knowledge. Yeah, his name\u2019s Kevin. And the worst part about that is like my\u2014 I have a miniature donkey named Kevin, and now I\u2019m like, well, [expletive], do I need to rename Kevin?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Needless to say, Cunningham\u2019s comments are a reminder that the WNBA\u2019s growing popularity has brought some unwanted attention along with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has become one of the most recognizable players in the WNBA, thanks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4805,99,434],"class_list":["post-898607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}