Troubled country singer Mindy McCready will tell the world about her sordid affair with former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens on a VH1 reality series set to premiere in January. The singer and Clemens met when she was a teenager and reportedly had a decade-long affair that ended when he refused to leave his wife.

Mindy, 33, who had a platinum and a gold album in the late '90s, will appear on VH1's Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew next year. She is seeking treatment for her codependency issues, which she says stem from her relationship with the 47-year-old Cy Young Award–winning pitcher and father of four. They met during spring training in Florida (she grew up in Fort Myers, about 100 miles south of the Yankees' spring training home, Steinbrenner Field in Tampa) in 1991 when Mindy was 15 and Roger had been married to Debra Clemens for nearly seven years. Discuss: Can a relationship with a married man ever work?

"He was the first person I fell madly in love with," McCready told the New York Daily News. "But having a person promise you the world and then not give it to you, that's the worst kind of abuse a person can suffer."

The singer has had a checkered history with men, including a broken engagement to Dean Cain in 1997 and an abusive relationship with her on-and-off boyfriend Billy McKnight, the father of her three-year-old son. She has attempted suicide several times.

McCready first confirmed reports of her affair with Clemens last year, and he released a statement vaguely apologizing for "mistakes in [his] personal life...I have apologized to my family and apologize to my fans," Clemens said in April 2008. "Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right."

A recent New York Times story explored why professional athletes' marriages so often end in divorce, with most of the problems coming after the athletes retire. But even without a track record of troubled marriages, we'd bet "hanging out with underage country singers" isn't what most wives would like to see their husbands doing during the off-season.

Via the New York Daily News. Photo courtesy Flickr user  E-Mans av8pix.com.