Mary Kate Cornett breaks silence after cheating rumors with boyfriend’s dad

I really thought the Mary Kate Cornett saga had fizzled out months ago—but turns out, I was completely wrong.

We covered the situation extensively when it first blew up online. The TL;DR? Mary Kate allegedly cheated on her boyfriend with his dad multiple times while at Ole Miss. Naturally, the internet caught wind and ran wild with it.

Call us part of the chaos if you want, but I’ve always seen myself as just the messenger—here to report on the madness unfolding across the World Wide Web.

I doubt she ever read our article (even though it actually performed pretty well—thanks if you did), but it’s clear she dealt with a ton of harassment afterward. Her phone number got leaked, and she was bombarded with texts, death threats—the whole nine yards. Not cool. If you felt compelled to text her or send threats over an internet rumor, it might be time to go outside and touch some grass.

Anyway, Mary Kate Cornett finally spoke out publicly this week. She sat down for an interview with NBC News to share her side of the story.

Mary Kate Cornett speaks out, denies everything the rumor implied

NEW: Ole Miss freshman speaks out after a rumor went viral claiming she had slept with her boyfriend's father.

This story is insane.

19-year-old Mary Kate Cornett is reportedly considering legal action after the rumor went viral, trending number 1 at one point on X.

Cornett… pic.twitter.com/j7DCmPi9Vf

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 3, 2025

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Now, if you’ve made it this far, you might be expecting me to apologize for what I previously wrote and urge everyone to believe her. That’s not going to happen.

Don’t get me wrong—if the entire situation was nothing more than a made-up internet story, I genuinely feel bad for her. With time, people will forget and move on. But if you’re being completely honest with yourself, you know there’s no real way for any of us to confirm whether it was true or not.

I’m not going to speculate any further than that. As I’ve said before: when I write articles like this, I’m simply spreading the good word. An internet missionary, if you will. Who am I to judge the sincerity of her—or the internet? I’m just a man doing the internet’s bidding.

In the end, I thought Mary Kate Cornett would fade back into the digital void of internet irrelevance. But she chose to step into the spotlight again. In doing so, she gave me another story to write—and I’ve once again fulfilled my purpose.