According to CNN, the owner of the NY Jets has apologized to a female TV reporter who was the victim of sexual harassment by Jets personnel.

Ines Sainz, a former Miss Spain who now works for popular Mexican network TV Azteca, told CNN’s Rick Sanchez that Jets owner Woody Johnson called her on Monday to apologize for the team’s inappropriate behavior. She said she accepted his apology.

On Saturday, Sainz tweeted that she was “dying of embarrassment,” after players began hooting and hollering and an assistant coach threw footballs at her as she stood on the sideline during a team practice.

“To be quite honest, it didn’t bother me,” said Sainz in an interview with TV Azteca. “I took it as a joke, and none of the footballs actually hit me.”

Then, when she entered the locker room to interview Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, she said she heard players discussing her.

“I try not to hear anything, try not to pay attention. My cameraman told me, ‘Don’t look on the right, don’t look at the left,” she said. “But I really feel the noise and all the environment was talking about me.”

Sainz said that a colleague later told her what the players said about her in the locker room.

“One colleague – one female colleague – came with me and [told] me, ‘I’m so sorry. It mustn’t happen. It’s not OK,'” Sainz said. “So I tried to calm her. … I really know that she [heard] something that I didn’t hear, and the rest of the media … heard things that I didn’t really hear. So I really appreciate the concern about it.”

Sainz said she thought no more of it until the next day when she learned the incidents were the talk of the NFL.

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“I was surprised to wake up on Sunday and have a call from the NFL , saying that they wanted to talk to me about what had happened at the Jets; and I asked… what happened?” Sainz told TV Azteca. “And they said well there is a pretty powerful accusation of harassment and then it was at that point I realized the magnitude of what had happened. “

The NFL says it is investigating the charges of sexual harassment toward Sainz after The Association for Women in Sports Media expressed their concerns. The NFL plans to hold “educational sessions” with the Jets next week.

Sainz said she was satisfied with the response from the Jets owner and the NFL. “I think the important point is that women deserve respect in any profession, so I think it’s going to happen,” said Sainz.