Rachel Ray's Husband in a Sex Scandal

Kitchen wholesome princess Rachael Ray has more to worry about than whether her vegetables are overcooked now that another woman is claiming that she carried on a kinky, five-year affair with Ray's husband.

Jeannine Walz claims in The National Enquirer that Ray's hubby, John Cusimano, paid Walz to commit degrading acts you won't be seeing on the Food Network. And, she claims, they used drugs together. Ray and Cusimano deny the allegations. According to the NY Daily:

Walz alleges that the 39-year-old lawyer and musician shelled out cash for her to spit in his face, rub her bare feet on his face and other gamy rituals.

The 30-year-old Florida woman contends that they met outside a lesbian bar in New York's West Village in 2000. That night, she said, Cusimano paid Walz and three friends $20 to spit in his face. "He even took pictures of us doing it," she tells the tab.

Walz said they continued to meet at her apartment and the apartment he shared at the time with Ray, 38.

"Sometimes he'd be naked," she claims. "I always kept my clothes on.

"John paid me up to $500 for a session," she claims. "We'd often have sessions at least twice a month … I virtually supported myself by spitting on him. But there was never any normal sex involved. He once offered to pay me $1,200 to perform a kinky sex act with him, but I refused."

She also alleges, "Sometimes John would buy marijuana or cocaine and we'd use it together."

According to The Enquirer, even after Cusimano married Ray and after Walz moved to Florida, "she often still gets together for her bizarre sessions with Cusimano, she says."

Speaking through their rep, Ray and Cusimano told us they found The Enquirer story "absolutely laughable. It is obvious to us the lengths that tabloids go to create stories. It's just sad when they take unwarranted shots at the people you care about the most."

The Enquirer also features a photo of Cusimano and Walz - taken, according to the tab, in New York on Nov. 6. A friend of the couple said the photo looked staged and stated, in fact, that Cusimano and Ray "couldn't be happier."

"Jeannine Walz has passed a polygraph test," said Enquirer editor David Perel, whose retooled mag has nailed such recent exclusives as Farrah Fawcett's cancer fight and O.J. Simpson's book deal. "Our lawyers are comfortable with her story."

From the sounds of it, I'd imagine that our good girl Rachel will not be serving any of these dishes for $40 per day.