After weeks out the spotlight, Jordon Hudson allegedly unraveled in an erratic 13-minute phone call with a podcast host after days of talks over appearing on their show.
The 24-year-old Hudson, the girlfriend of 73-year-old NFL great Bill Belichick, had kept a low profile following an excruciating April CBS interview with the University of North Carolina coach. Her interventions from off-camera to stop him speaking about their romance led to friends of Belichick publicly discussing an intervention, while others questioned his sanity and if Hudson was taking advantage of him.
As her reputation crashed from one low to another, she made what appeared to be a conscious and wise step away from the limelight to ride out the storm and allow Belichick to focus on the upcoming college football season.
Until now. Charlotte Wilder, the co-host of ‘The Sports Gossip Show’, has claimed Hudson inexplicably called her out of the blue on a recent Saturday night, introducing herself as ‘the President of your universe’. Wilder and fellow host Madeline Hill have taken an unapologetic interest in Hudson and Belichick’s romance since it became public news, even attending her Miss Maine beauty pageant earlier in the summer, where she finished third.
‘It’s a Saturday night, my husband and I had a lovely dinner. A number that is not in my phone popped up,’ Wilder said. ‘They called back immediately when I pressed the red, don’t answer, button. I answer the phone, there’s a woman’s voice, she says “Hi. Is this Charlotte? How are you?”
‘I said “May I ask who is calling, please?” and the woman goes “this is Jordon Hudson. Yeah it’s Jordon, the president of your universe”. I think she said it’s the president of your universe because in the Miss Maine pageant show you (Hill) said seeing her is like seeing the President.
Jordon Hudson melted down on a call to a podcast host about talks on an appearance
Madeline Hill (left) and Charlotte Wilder have taken a big interest in Hudson and Bil Belichick
Hudson reportedly called Wilder out the blue on a Saturday night to instigate the discussions
‘I am assuming she is recording me. It was unclear to me why she was calling me at first. I tried very hard to be normal. She seemed like, I couldn’t tell what the tone was. She would oscilate between friendly but there was clearly an edge to her voice, she kind of wanted to let me have it. She wanted to talk about our Miss Maine episode, our opinions around the pageant.’
Hudson had clearly been listening to their shows about her, with Wilder explaining: ‘She said you guys have gotten as clsoe to the truth as anyone, you are still far away from it. She loved that we had said she is Bill Belichick’s Tree Paine (Taylor Swift’s publicist) because (Hudson said) I am. She said “everybody loved Bill’s media presence until they found out I was behind it”‘.
It sparked days of talks between Hudson and the podcast hosts over their interest in her, which Wilder and Hill hoped would lead to an appearance on their show.
But as the days passed by and calls went unreturned, they grew uncomfortable with how Hudson was handling things. They said the discussions felt ‘like a toxic relationship’.
‘There were three main questions she had and she is talking in circles, using a lot of legalese,’ Wilder and Hill said. ‘Words, sort of like her Instagram captions, word salady, not exactly the correct word for what she is trying to say.’
Then, when Hudson discovered the podcasters were signing a new contract with The Athletic, she was angry.
They explained: ‘We tell her (about The Athletic deal) and she is not pleased, she says The Athletic has been awful to me, doesn’t like the reporting. Says “I don’t want to make The Athletic any money”.
Hudson, 24, has been subjected to huge scrutiny over dating 73-year-old Bill Belichick
Hudson apparently relished comparisons to Taylor Swift’s PR manager, Tree Paine (above)
‘She got very hung up about that in other times. She is sort of obsessed with the legality of how her image can be used. It was something she was very fixated on. She wants intense control without understanding you will never have it.’
The Friday after Hudson’s unnanounced Saturday evening call, the talks fell apart once and for all.
Wilder took a call from an irate Hudson that afternoon, and she was screaming at her.
‘There is a real edge to her voice this time,’ Wilder said. ‘She really starts, she’s yelling at me, she is crying, she said she finished the rest of the Miss Maine episode and said she didnt like what we said.
‘I was like “what?”. I thought we were talking about the epsiode that you watched (in full) the whole time. Complete 180. We had a feeling there was this tension – waiting for the other shoe to drop.
‘This goes on for 13 minutes. I am shaking. I’ve had people yell at me before but because I thought we had built up some level of trust with her, it was incredibly jarring. When someone is yelling at you, you are like ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ but we haven’t done anything.
‘Either she just finished the Miss Maine epsisode or she had already watched it and kind of wanted to yell at us the whole time. Or if she had watched it, she felt betrayed by people who in her heard were more than reporters. She was like “you have been so nice to my face this week, how can you say these things?”.
‘To call me, so upset, I was like “what are you doing?”. You want to save her from herself. She clearly doesn’t trust us anymore, we don’t trust her as a reliable narrator about herself.
The podcasters said Hudson’s tone veered from ‘friendly’ to having ‘an edge’ in their talks
But the talks ended with Hudson ‘yelling and crying’ over coverage of her beauty pageant
Hill added: ‘At times it felt like she was much older, times where it felt like she was much younger… It seems like she’s mad at the world, wants it both ways.’
Wilder said that very early on in discussions about Hudson appearing on their show, she told her that if an apperance didn’t happen they would still discuss their phone calls in a subsequent episode.
Given Hudson was aware of how things would play out, it makes her final call to Wilder all the more puzzling.
The latest instalement of Hudson’s erratic behavior is nothing short of nightmare timing for Belichick and UNC, with the eight-time winning Super Bowl coach stepping up his preparations for his team’s first game of the season on Monday, September 1.
It shifts the spotlight right back onto his personal life – something he has never been able to deal with comfortably or authentically – at a time when football season should be his only talking point.
He has defended Hudson staunchly until now. It remains to be seen how he repsonds from here.
The podcasters added that Hudson gave little away about her boyfriend.
‘Anytime we asked her about Bill, she would deflect,’ they said. ‘We got no information about Bill, her role at UNC. She wouldn’t give us anything.’