Kevin Pietersen has responded with disdain to the emergence of an England and Wales Cricket Board leaked document cataloguing his alleged behaviour during last winter's Ashes.
Pietersen spent Tuesday undertaking a marathon session of interviews to promote his autobiography, his means of defending himself after what he calls years of character assassination by "the ECB press machine".
But even as the sacked batsman was concluding his dawn-to-dark schedule with a public Q&A session in Manchester, the new document surfaced.
The ECB was at pains to make clear it was not the long-rumoured dossier of Pietersen's conduct by former coach Andy Flower.
Instead, the governing body stressed, it was a draft internal email for its lawyers.
Pietersen is unlikely to care much about the text's exact status, and said: "I heard about it in the car earlier. It is embarrassing."
One of the entries misspelled captain Alastair Cook's first name as Alistair.
Pietersen added: "They couldn't even spell Cooky's name right.
"It is a joke. I am done with it. It is so embarrassing I don't want to give it any thought. I am just getting on with my life."
The document focused almost entirely on Pietersen's role in England's descent to Ashes whitewash - and its emergence on the Cricinfo website represented a significant development late in the day.
It specifies instances of Pietersen being "disengaged" during Flower's addresses to team meetings, another entry relating he wanted to leave the tour because of pain in his knee if England lost the third Test to go 3-0 down - which they did - and later, abusive subsequent exchanges between him and his team-mates as relationships apparently broke down.
Pietersen had earlier explained the reasons for revelations in KP: The Autobiography - which will go on general sale on Thursday - of a "bullying" culture in the dressing-room under Flower, and his disdain for the part played by Matt Prior and Graeme Swann.
"My character has been assassinated for five or six years, on a regular basis, by the ECB press machine," he said at the Q&A.
On Channel 4 News, he added: "It's now my time to put things right and put the truth out there."
Pietersen traces his gripes back to treatment by his employers from the moment he lost the England captaincy after a power struggle with then coach Peter Moores in 2008/09.
Of the many controversies which have followed, one rankles most with him - the parody Twitter account ridiculing his personality in 2012 and, contrary to the findings of the ECB, his belief that some of his team-mates were behind it.
"That's what ruined everything for me, and took away my feeling of trust and respect in terms of the team," he told Channel 4.
"It hurt me severely. I wouldn't say it's a sense of humour when you publically humiliate one of your team-mates."
"My character has been assassinated for five or six years, on a regular basis, by the ECB press machine." - Kevin Pietersen
Swann has described Pietersen's autobiography as "codswallop" and "the biggest work of fiction since Jules Verne".
Writing in the Sun, he said: "There was absolutely no bullying. Bowlers never had a go at fielders for dropping catches or something that was a genuine mistake."
But Pietersen said: "I can go to sleep knowing that everything I've written in that book is true."
The 34-year-old's stellar international career was brought to a halt eight months ago when he was axed after England's Ashes defeat.
Following the end of a subsequent confidentiality clause, he has not held back in his criticism of anyone in print.
"I've not been allowed to give my side of the story because of the regime we were under," Pietersen told BBC Radio 5 Live. "As sad as it is, it's been a battle I've been fighting since Flower was coach - so I had to try to defend myself."
Pietersen claims fielders were forced to apologise to the 'bullies' among England's bowlers if they made a mistake - and again contrary to an ECB assurance, he is adamant the issue was brought to the attention of management.
The claim of having to make apologies was corroborated by former England team-mate Ajmal Shahzad, who recalled on BBC Radio Five Live a time Jonathan Trott stood up to say sorry for a crucial misfield in a Twenty20 clash against Pakistan in Dubai, in 2010.
"I remember the next day we had a meeting in the hotel room, (and) Trotty came to the front and apologised for what he'd done," Nottinghamshire all-rounder Shahzad said. "Again, the feeling was he was made to - he felt as if he was asked to do so.
"He stepped up and made an apology, and it was something I had never seen before. I felt, this being my first game, it was the way it was done; if you make a mistake you apologise for the mistake you've made."
Pietersen has been damning about Prior, and claims vindication after the ECB did not re-engage the wicket-keeper on a central contract last month as he tries to battle back from Achilles surgery.
Pietersen feels he has won his personal battle with Prior, and is unrepentant.
"It was something that needed to be said because of the double standards," Pietersen told Sky Sports News. "I was targeted ... this horrible stigma that's been attached to me, of being selfish, 'billy big shot'.
"When I look around the dressing-room, I think if there was a podium for egos I wouldn't be on it."
He said on BBC Radio 5 Live: "I was the one who was made out to be this big, brash person ... and then I looked at the way he [Prior] conducted himself in the dressing-room.
"I wanted to stand up to him, and I did stand up to him. When he got dropped (last winter), he was an embarrassment in the dressing room in Australia - and I don't think I can have been that wrong, because he doesn't have a central contract any more. England are finished with him."
The same can almost certainly be said of Pietersen, who is nonetheless content he has done what is right.
Recalling his broken relationship with Flower, Pietersen told Sky Sports News: "He made me feel ostracised in the dressing room, didn't like me from day dot, collected stamp after stamp after stamp ... then got rid of me.
"It's an incredibly sad way to end a career. It's incredibly sad how I've had to come out and defend myself too. Anybody who loves English cricket is probably in a dark place right now - because it's not a good place to be."
