Dave Portnoy's Sex-Tape Partner Sydney Raines On Scandal: It Won't 'Ruin Me'

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy’s sex-tape partner Sydney Raines got candid about their raunchy video that leaked online last month and the aftermath of the scandal.

The 22-year-old, who works as a "part-time nanny, a bottle girl at an Atlanta lounge and also at a hospital," said she has no regrets over it, the New York Post reported.

"I’ve always been really open about my sexuality," she told the outlet. "Maybe I don’t care when I should but I really saw it as just a bump in the road. It wasn’t going to ruin me. I feel like people might see me as a victim in that situation, but I haven’t seen myself that way."

"If there’s anything I learned from the video, it is that everyone will always have their opinions whether good or bad," Raines shared. "The most important thing is to not apologize for something you’re not sorry for. I have no regrets how I handled the situation. At the end of the day, I’m the only person I have to prove myself to."

Recalling how she learned about the leak, Raines said she was at her nanny job in early April when a friend asked her if she knew Portnoy. Another pal also checked on her if she was doing fine because they received a video of her. This led to Raines Googling her own name and seeing the video of Portnoy holding a leash attached to a collar around her neck.

The sex tape in question was made in July 2020 when she visited Portnoy at his home in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The scandalous clip affected the stock prices for Penn National Games, which owns a 36% stake in Barstool Sports, as it took a temporary dip.

Raines said she didn't know how the footage leaked and made it clear that she had no hand in it.

"I didn’t have a moment of my heart dropping or panic until my mother said we needed to talk. But she ended up being supportive," Raines recalled. "A lot of friends started checking in and Dave reached out multiple times to make sure I was OK."

Some had accused Raines of getting paid by Portnoy, but she vehemently denied this. Raines also shared how her mom joked that she should start an OnlyFans account following the scandal, but she wasn't interested in it.

"I haven’t gotten anything from this. It wasn’t about money, it was about my conscience. Nothing much has changed," she explained.

"She was like, ‘if you are posting these half-naked pictures [on Instagram], you might as well make money from it,’" she continued, recounting her conversation with her mother. "But she doesn’t know that a lot of girls on [OnlyFans] do porn. My pictures are R-rated, not X-rated. I want to keep it that way."

Raines first addressed the controversial video in a post on Instagram on April 7. In her post, she acknowledged that the woman in the video was her and explained that the footage was "from the past " and that "it was never meant to be public."

"Some might not approve of the video content but it was entirely consensual and it's unfortunate that it is no longer private, but we are still friends with no animosity between us," Raines said of Portnoy.

Portnoy echoed her sentiments after the scandal affected Penn National Gaming’s stock prices.

"Somebody committing a crime by leaking an old video of sex between two consenting adults seems like a dumb reason for a stock to go down," he said in a video posted on Twitter last month.