Michael Irvin plays video of encounter at center of $100m Marriott lawsuit

Former Dallas Cowboys star Michael Irvin showed reporters the hotel surveillance video at the center of of his $100m lawsuit against Marriott on Tuesday.

The video, which Marriott has fought to prevent from being seen by the public, shows the encounter that led to Irvin being pulled from his job at NFL Network during the week before Super Bowl LVII, due to allegations he directed “harassing and inappropriate comments” at a female employee in the lobby of the Marriott-owned Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel.

The 56-year-old Irvin, whose legal team has claimed the video will exonerate him, played the footage for a gathering of media at a news conference, shortly after it was reported the former NFL star was dropping the lawsuit against Marriott, initially filed in Texas, in order to refile it in Arizona.

“Here’s the truth. We used to say when we played football ‘the eye in the sky don’t tell no lie’, it’s just the truth,” Irvin said Tuesday, according to KDFW Fox 4. “We talk and tell lies, but the eye in the sky don’t tell no lie.”

NEW VIDEO: Lawyers for Michael Irvin show the surveillance video from the hotel where an employee mad a sexual assault allegation against Irvin. The length of the conversation was for nearly 2 minutes. Irvin says he talked to the woman about the sports shows he’s on. @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/1IRvzB0UmP

In the video, Irvin can be seen walking up to the employee and shaking her hand, then touching her arm twice. Shortly after, the employee is shown taking a couple steps back from him, followed by the pair shaking hands and Irvin looking in her direction as she walks away. The footage contains no audio of the conversation between the two.

The Hall of Fame wide receiver and his attorney, Levi