The ESPN temptress who had a torrid affair with married sportscaster Steve Phillips says she finally lost it after seeing TV funnyman Jay Leno skewer her looks on the air — leaving her friends worried about her mental health.
“At that point, a person has their breaking point. That was my breaking point,” a tearful Brooke Hundley, 22, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” yesterday.
“I had a friend who had to come stay with me because he was concerned that mentally I would not be able to take much more.”
The joke that set her off occurred when Leno showed a picture of the plus-sized Hundley alongside a photo of Phillips’ beautiful wife, Marni.
“What was he thinking?” Leno exclaimed to the audience’s yuks. “I realize you can’t have steak every day, but please.”
Hundley allegedly stirred up trouble with Phillips’ family members, who live in Wilton, Conn., after he called off the romance.
She sent a salacious letter about the dalliance to Marni, taunting her with graphic details of the hookup.
“I’m the woman he’s been seeing for a while now,” she wrote. “I’m not just some random girl he had sex with in the parking lots.”
She also contacted Phillips’ teenage son through Facebook, prompting the boy’s mom to call 911.
Since the affair was revealed by The Post last month, Hundley, who was fired by ESPN along with Phillips, said she has been inundated by taunts and insults from the public.
“I’ve been called things by the public that no woman should ever be called,” Hundley said.
“I’ve been called the ‘C’ word. I’ve been called a whore. I’ve been called a homewrecker.
“I couldn’t go a day without getting, you know, 200 messages in my inbox from people that have never met me, just labeling, just calling me names.”
Hundley said that she feels badly about what happened. And she claimed that she brought the affair to light to get Phillips, 46, to stop pursuing her.
“I did things I regret, obviously. People make mistakes at 22,” she said. “That’s not what I was trying to do originally, was hurt anybody or affect anybody else’s lives negatively.
“But I did things and I thought about things just as an avenue to get people to pay attention, to start asking the right questions, to get me out of a bad situation.”
The Bristol, Conn., woman also denied the stalking allegations.
“I didn’t, in any time working at ESPN, follow anybody around, wanting any sort of relationship with anybody,” she said.
“I didn’t harass anyone. I didn’t want anything from anyone.”
An investigation conducted by the sports network found that her characterization of events was inconsistent.
In August, Hundley said she took out a restraining order against Phillips — saying he threatened her career if she didn’t keep quiet about the relationship.
She later withdrew it.
Phillips is in rehab for sex addiction and his wife has filed for divorce.
It isn’t Phillips’ first trip to sex rehab. In 1998, when he was general manager of the Mets, he received counseling after admitting to a series of extramarital affairs.
In the wake of the Phillips-Hundley affair, ESPN’s on-air talent was warned about the perils of fooling around at the office.