Steve Phillips was so addicted to sex that he couldn’t stop himself from bedding a young production assistant — even if it meant wrecking his marriage and career, the ex-ESPN baseball analyst said yesterday.
“It’s the compulsion,” Phillips told the “Today” show in his first interview since sex rehab. “I couldn’t stop myself from doing the things that I was doing, even knowing the consequences — marriage, great job, great career, and I risked all of that.”
Phillips, who was fired last fall, shortly after The Post revealed his affair with ESPN staffer Brooke Hundley, recently completed a 45-day stay in the Gentle Path treatment center in Mississippi — the same facility fellow philanderer Tiger Woods left last week.
“People look at sex addiction as an excuse. It’s not an excuse,” said the former Mets general manager. “I’m fully responsible for everything that I did. I’ve broken my wife’s heart.”
He said that last August, before The Post exposed how Hundley bizarrely stalked him and his family after he dumped her, “I realized . . . that I was a sex addict and I really needed to get help.”
“I’m working my tail off to save my marriage” to Marni Phillips, who has taken him back into their home despite a pending divorce proceeding, Phillips said.