Brooke Shields says her ex-husband Andre Agassi smashed all his tennis trophies in a drug-fuelled match of jealous rage after watching her movie her finger-licking function in ‘Pals’.
Brooke Shields says her ex-husband Andre Agassi smashed all his tennis trophies in a drug-fuelled match of jealous rage after watching her movie her finger-licking function in ‘Pals’
The ‘Blue Lagoon’ actress, 57, performed Erika within the sitcom who stalked Matt Le Blanc’s character Joey Tribbiani in a 1996 episode that included a scene of her licking the actor’s hand at a restaurant.
She informed the New Yorker about how Andre, 52, who she married a 12 months after he look on the present was aired, “co-opted” her cameo: “Andre was within the viewers supporting me, and he stormed out.
“He mentioned, ‘Everyone’s making enjoyable of me. You made a idiot of me by that behaviour.’
“I’m, like, ‘It’s comedy! What’s the matter with you?’”
Brooke added his fury didn’t cease by storming out and mentioned he additionally went residence and “smashed all his trophies” in anger – which she branded drug-induced “irrational behaviour”.
Andre admitted in his autobiography to taking crystal meth, with Brooke claimed she later heard he was on through the rage incident.
She and the previous world tennis primary ended up getting divorced in 1999 as a result of athlete’s battle with dependancy.
Brook additionally mentioned ‘Pals’ producers initially didn’t need her to do her “loopy” stalker cackle throughout her episode – or “the licking of his fingers” to point out how a lot she was fixated on Joey.
However after being talked into it, they determined to place each within the present, main Brooke – who now has daughters Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16, together with her 59-year-old husband of twenty-two years Chris Henchy – to be provided her sitcom ‘All of a sudden Susan’.
She added: “Unexpectedly, the vitality modified, and all these males in fits began coming into the studio.
“The subsequent day, I used to be requested if I needed to do my very own tv present.”
