AceShowbiz - Shannon Sharpe has spoken up after he sent social media abuzz with his viral NSFW video. After initially blaming hacker for sharing the clip of him engaging in a sexual activity with a woman, the former professional football tight end admitted that it was himself to blame for the hiccup.

"Obviously I am embarrassed," he said during an emergency episode of "Nightcap" on Wednesday night, September 11. "Someone that is extremely, extremely private and to have one of your most intimate details - the audio - heard for the entire world to hear, I'm embarrassed for a number of reasons."

"There are a lot of people that count on Shannon to be professional at all times and I always try to be professional at all times, even when I'm behind closed doors," he explained himself. "I'm very disappointed in myself, not for the act. I think there are millions and billions of people of consenting age that engage in activities, but for the audio to be heard I'm disappointed in myself. I let a lot of people down."

Shannon said that the event occurred because of his lack of technological knowledge. "My phone wasn't hacked. It wasn't a prank, it was me being a healthy, active male," he added. "Ya'll thought I was bulljiving, Unc get it in."

"I threw my phone on the bed, engaged in an activity," the 56-year-old said on the show. "I did not know IG live. I've never turned IG live on so I don't know how it works and all of sudden my other phone started going off."

Upon realizing the mistake, Shannon said he got "agitated." He shared, "Man, my heart sank. It dropped." He credited his marketing partner Jamie Fritz for alerting him of the situation and another person for ending the live video.

Chad Johnson a.k.a. Chad Ochocinco did attest to Shannon's lack of technological awareness, telling the audience during the episode that the three-time Super Bowl champ has butt dialed him in the past without even realizing it.

Still, he didn't expect this from a friend that he respects. "I'm baffled. I never thought I'd see the day where you, Unc, would pull something so out of character," Chad said. "A little unprofessional. I'm not mad, I'm thoroughly disappointed because I hold you to a higher standard. The type of standard you just tried to chastise me for just Saturday. So this has really sent me into a complete shock."

Shannon also took to his Instagram page to react to the incident. Sharing a number of memes that people made to express their shock, he captioned them, "I guess uhhh….. this probably a bad time to say take it easy huh!?"

Shannon left his followers blushed when he accidentally went live on Wednesday morning. In the video, a woman could be heard making moaning sounds. While the camera shows nothing but a wooden floor or bedpost, viewers can hear a few smacking sounds.

The Pro Football Hall of Famer initially claimed his Instagram account had been hacked in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Beware my @shannonsharpe84 Instagram was hacked this morning, my team and I are working vigorously to figure this out," he wrote in the since-deleted tweet.