Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis and his family are speaking out after a private video involving the NFL player and his former girlfriend spread across social media last year.
Levis’ mother, Beth, revealed during an appearance on the “Ross Tucker Football Podcast” that her son spent a massive amount of money trying to erase the intimate footage from the internet after investigators determined hackers had stolen the content from one of his personal devices years earlier, per the New York Post.
Beth said she first learned about the situation after receiving an emotional phone call from her son in May 2024.
“As soon as he started talking my heart immediately sank. … I ended up pulling over and come to find out that my son had just found out a couple hours [before] he discovered that there was a very intimate video of he and his ex girlfriend that had gone viral all over social media platforms,” she said.
“The first words out of Will’s mouth were, ‘I’m so sorry, mom,’ and it just broke my heart.”
According to Beth, Levis hired cybersecurity experts in an effort to track down the source of the leak and remove the material online.
“Will actually ended up engaging in hiring a cybersecurity specialist and spent an exorbitant amount of money to try to get to the bottom of this,” she explained.
The investigation allegedly traced the breach back to an Eastern European hacking group.
“We did find out that actually this content was stolen and his private either laptop or digital platform/phone was actually breached and invaded a year or two earlier when he was in college,” Beth said.
“And we come to find out this was an Eastern European hacking group that is notorious for trying to target what they think might be an attractive couple they can then expose and do what they do for attention.”
Beth also pushed back against speculation that either Levis or his former girlfriend intentionally released the video.
Levis previously dated influencer Gia Duddy while attending the University of Kentucky and Penn State University.
Duddy gained national attention during the 2023 NFL Draft while supporting Levis as he waited to be selected.
The couple later split in 2023.
Beth said the ordeal eventually inspired her to reshape her lifestyle brand around mental health and reducing dependence on technology.
“As a principally driven person, and with these experiences being so raw and utterly awful, it really bothered me that I did not use these examples for the better,” she said.
“So basically what was born out of that angst is — I sat down and I was like, I have this lifestyle brand and we’ve already been in the positivity space and maybe we can reframe this and rebrand with an emphasis on preaching the importance of in how important it is to take time out from our devices.”
