Lthe actress Brooke Shields (57 years old)who was married from 1997 to 1999 to André Agassi (52 years old)has unveiled new details about her failed marriage to the tennis player winner of four Grand Slams and one Olympic.
“The day after I got married I already knew I was wrong. I loved Andre, but I wasn’t sure I wanted the life we led,” Brooke Shields came to recognize in the book ‘There Was a Little Girl’.
Brooke Shields licked Matt Leblanc’s fingers in ‘Friends’: the scene that sparked Agassi’s anger
In an interview with the magazine ‘The New Yorker’ the actress, who is promoting her autobiographical documentary ‘Pretty Baby’told that Agassi “destroyed all his trophies” in a jealous attack for a scene that he had to shoot in 1996 for the chapter ‘The one after the Super Bowl’ of the second season of the famous series ‘Friends’.
In that scene, Erika (Brooke Shields) had to suck the fingers of actor Matt Leblanc’s hand, who played the role of the popular Joey Tribbiani, for being “the fingers of a genius”.
“Andre was in the audience supporting me and he stormed out of there,” the actress tells Michael Schulman.
“He told me: ‘Everyone is making fun of me. You have made a fool of me with that behavior.” To which I replied: “It’s a comedy! What is wrong with you?”, says Brooke Shields in ‘The New Yorker’.
Brooke Shields: “I later found out that Andre Agassi was addicted to methamphetamine at the time”
Brooke Shields wanted to justify her then-husband’s “irrational behavior”: “I later found out that Andre Agassi was addicted to methamphetamine at the time, so I’m sure that irrational behavior had something to do with it.”
In 2009 Agassi acknowledged in his famous autobiography ‘Open’ having taken drugs and having lied to the ATP to avoid being penalized for doping.
He October 22, 2001 Andre Agassi married German tennis player Steffi Graff In Las Vegas. Between the two they add 30 Grand Slams.
