They were athlete and trainer, then accused and accuser, now they're plaintiff and defendant. One thing Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee had never been were equals — at least until they hit rock-bottom together.

"He did what he thought was right, I did what I had to do," McNamee said recently. "End of story."

Not quite.

The last time the two appeared together was February, when each gave a dramatically different account of their working relationship in testimony before Congress. They could be compelled to repeat those versions in front of a judge sometime next year, if Clemens' defamation lawsuit against McNamee goes to trial.

The chances of them speaking before then are slim and none.

"It wouldn't be my dime," McNamee said in a videotaped interview with SportsImproper.com, available on the web site Wednesday and billed as his first since the congressional hearings.

According to a written transcript provided to The Associated Press, McNamee said he rarely left home in the days after the Mitchell Report was released almost a year ago, making public the trainer's allegations that he helped the seven-time Cy Young Award winner use steroids and human growth hormone before they were banned by major league baseball.

Speculation at the time was that those accusations could cost Clemens, who won 354 games and two World Series rings in New York, entry into the Hall of Fame. A string of sordid revelations that followed in the report's wake, including a decade-long relationship Clemens began with country star Mindy McCready when she was 15, may have sealed his fate.

"He's done. He's not going to the Hall of Fame," McNamee said. "There's no chance. Too much damage. Too much trust was broken. Between the people that gave him his career, the people that wrote about his career, and the people that supported his career."

Clemens plucked McNamee from a clubhouse job in Toronto and provided him with steady work, a good living and an entree to several other high-profile clients, including Yankees teammates Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch, over the next 10 years.

Still speaking about his former employer's bid to reach Cooperstown, what McNamee said next could serve as a tableau for their falling-out.

"You know, it takes a lifetime to build trust. All it takes is one monumental moment to break that trust and you're done. And that's what happened," McNamee continued. "It not only happened, but it happened at monumental lengths. So he's not deserving of the Hall of Fame."

Clemens faces consequences more dire than that, since federal investigators are still examining evidence to determine whether he perjured himself last February by telling Congress under oath that he never used steroids or HGH. A report Tuesday on ESPN.com said FBI agents are reviewing Clemens' medical records from the Yankees, Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays.

"We've voluntarily complied in response to congressional requests. We would have provided them to the government," Clemens' attorney, Rusty Hardin, said Tuesday evening. "We are delighted for any legitimate investigators to peruse Roger's medical records."

Hardin added that Clemens had decided to keep a low profile since the congressional hearings and that his client would have no comment on McNamee's latest remarks. But that could change as the defamation lawsuit moves through the legal system.

U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison, who is presiding over the case, gave McNamee's attorneys an extension until next week to present evidence their client was "coerced" into telling former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about Clemens' drug use under threat of prosecution.

Attorneys Richard Emery and Earl Ward contend that because McNamee was compelled to testify, his statements are lawfully "immune from any defamation."

Hardin said his side would decide how to proceed after that matter is resolved. In the meantime, McNamee says he is trying to rebuild both his business and his personal life.

"I started to go out and the support was so great. Then I got back into training and that's been going well. The celebrity thing? I don't want it, I really don't. ...

"It was good for me in a business sense to train him and to help my outside interests," he added. "But as far as a friendship, I mean, obviously, if there was one I really don't think there's going to be one again."