Johnny Manziel has revealed the torment he has suffered due to an alleged stalker who has plagued him with bizarre claims, including that they share a child and outlandish conspiracy theories involving Donald Trump, assassination plots, and the Israeli secret service. Manziel insists these accusations are entirely unfounded.

Once a standout athlete, Manziel rose to national fame as “Johnny Football” during his spectacular college career at Texas A&M, where he clinched the prestigious Heisman Trophy, paving his way to the NFL.

At 33, Manziel now hosts the Glory Daze podcast. Despite leaving Texas A&M in 2014, he disclosed to the Daily Mail that he continues to suffer repercussions from a seemingly innocuous photo taken with a fan, MaKenzie Calame, during his teenage years.

“Just a few months ago,” Manziel recounted, “I reached out to my parents and asked, ‘Can you help me with this?'”

However, the situation has escalated to such an extent that Manziel felt compelled to seek a temporary restraining order against Calame. “It’s causing unbelievable problems in my life,” he expressed. “It’s a sickness.”

According to court documents filed recently, and reviewed by the Daily Mail, Manziel accuses Calame of exhibiting “obsessive, erratic, and harassing behavior,” spreading hallucinatory conspiracies about him across various social media platforms.

Manziel claims never to have spoken to Calame, a 32-year-old mother of two who – records show – lives in College Station, the home of Texas A&M. ‘That picture… when I was 18-19 years old,’ he said, ‘is the only brief instance that I’ve ever even been in the same vicinity – that I know of – with this individual.’

MaKenzie Calame recently posted this picture on TikTok as part of a social media video

Johnny Manziel has lifted the lid on what he describes as years of hell at the hands of a stalker

Manziel was one of America’s biggest stars during an incredible college career at Texas A&M

And yet across social media accounts – on Instagram and TikTok – Calame posts a relentless stream of videos about the college football star. On one account alone, more than 30 have appeared in the past 24 hours.

Her posts include alleged text conversations between the pair. And among her claims are that Manziel works ‘undercover’ for Trump and is, in fact, distant cousins with the president. Manziel denies the claims.

She also recently alleged the 33-year-old survived an assassination attempt ‘overseen’ by his friend Mike Majlak – all of which Manziel says is false – in part because the college football legend did not take part in a threesome. Her extensive theory, outlined on Instagram, also appears to involve Mossad and Iranian surveillance.

Manziel told the Daily Mail: ‘I didn’t start seeing TikToks or Instagrams or getting tagged in anything from this girl until about four or five years ago.’

At the time, the 33-year-old said, he blocked the accounts and carried on with his life. ‘I have enough truth and fiction said about me on a daily basis,’ he added. Manziel said he would receive private messages from time to time, too.

‘But it wasn’t anything too serious,’ he said. ‘It just looked like crazy talk… I continued to ignore it and then over the last year to two years, it’s started to get more frequent.

‘And over the last three months, it has really ramped up to a place of fear for me. It’s scaring me… [and] people in my family are really upset.’ Particularly his father. ‘It’s sad,’ he said.

Manziel was selected 22nd overall by the Cleveland Browns at the 2014 NFL Draft

The 33-year-old remains a huge star at Texas A&M – no one pictured is accused of wrongdoing

‘Even my girl,’ Manziel added. ‘She’s on her TikTok at night, and this pops up… I hope things work out in the best of ways.’ But at this point, he and his loved ones are ‘fearful’.

Late last year, Manziel said, he received an email from child services in Texas that implied he had a child he never knew about. The 33-year-old said he offered to take a paternity test and inquired about the baby’s mother.

‘[They] told me the girl’s name was MaKenzie Calame,’ Manziel said. So he replied: ‘There’s no possibility of this child being mine.’ As Manziel told the Daily Mail: ‘The child is actually African-American and I’m not.’ Nor is Calame and pictures online appear to support his observation about her son.

‘I continued to let it go… and just ignore it,’ the ex-quarterback said. ‘And hope it doesn’t get worse.’

But the issue ratcheted up another notch earlier this month, when Calame contacted virtually ‘anybody I’ve done a business deal with or in life,’ Manziel said. Including his ex-wife. Now he is concerned what might happen if ‘obsessiveness shifts to anger.’

‘I don’t want to be looking over my shoulder,’ he said. ‘Does it get to a point where – I don’t know – she’s violent?’

Manziel recently retained a lawyer and spoke with College Station police. On Friday a temporary restraining order was granted against Calame, with the court finding that the ex-football star ‘faces probable, imminent and irreparable injury’ without it.

As he awaits a more permanent solution, he wants to set the record straight. ‘It just got to the point of frustration… where I have no idea but to take matters into my own hands,’ he said. Manziel he wants to ‘give people the truth.’

His football career was dogged by off-field controversy and the retired quarterback has been open about his own struggles with mental health. He battled alcohol and drug abuse and was previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Manziel has also revealed how he once tried to take his own life, only for the gun to malfunction.

‘It is causing unbelievable problems in my life… it’s a sickness,’ Manziel said of his ordeal

The quarterback won the Heisman Trophy – given to college football’s top player – in 2012

So, the 33-year-old said, he is not driven by anger or any desire for revenge. He would rather Calame is helped than punished. As he recently told her family: ‘I don’t have any malicious intent in my heart for this.’

Manziel received an email from Calame’s aunt, seen by the Daily Mail, who admitted the family was ‘very concerned’ by her niece’s antics. They spoke again recently, the ex-quarterback said.

He was told that around the last presidential election, Calame joined chatrooms and learned skills including ‘stitching videos together.’ 

A recent video on her TikTok – entitled ‘The Cold War: Texas Mom Gone Rogue… My Story’ does show Calame repeating claims of election fraud.

Manziel said he told her family: ‘I’m a person that’s dealt with mental health struggles… and I realized that no matter where your mental [state] may be, there are people out there that can help you.’ He offered to do his bit.

‘I don’t think her children or anybody should be allowed to grow up in this environment. I can’t imagine the trickle-down effect of trauma and everything that comes with that.’

Manziel is also taking steps to shield himself. ‘First and foremost, I have to take care of myself,’ he said. ‘I’ve spoken to the most important people in my life, who I like to call the pillars of my life.’

They include former coaches and advisors and a therapist who he chats with three times a week – ‘people that have helped me with my mental health… to make sure that I’m not letting this stress me out too much.’

‘As much as I want to help, it’s not my place,’ the former college football star told the Daily Mail

He wants to be able to carry on with life, ‘while also having care and concern about another individual’s well-being.’ He plans to talk to Calame’s family one more time and then put his faith in the justice system.

‘I’m very polarizing – I’m very loved, I’m very hated,’ Manziel said. ‘Throughout the years of me getting my mental [health] to a place where I’m able to hold my head high about what I’ve done – through the good, the bad in my life – I realized that I very much am human… I very much am far from flawless.’

He said he has discovered a new purpose. ‘Maybe I’m put on this earth not to win a Super Bowl and play football for 15 years… maybe I’m put on this earth to help people,’ Manziel continued. Giving back, he added, ‘that’s what our Aggie honor code is.’

But here, he knows there is only so much he can do. ‘I hope she gets help, I hope that her kids are in a safe place, and I hope that her family is able to somehow find stability… I hear the fear and the worry in their voices when they’re speaking to me,’ Manziel continued.

‘And as much as I want to help, it’s not my place. I have too many other things going on in my life… to really put my time and my effort into this. It’s already taken enough of my time.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to Calame for comment on the allegations made against her.