Andre Agassi, a tennis legend and one of the sport’s most significant figures, enjoyed a fruitful professional career. However, his professional tennis career far outshone his personal life.
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Agassi’s ex-wife Brooke Shields has often said that he brought his frustrations and resentment home with him. The Hollywood actress once revealed how Agassi’s rage overcame him after watching her shoot a scene.
Brooke Shields on Andre Agassi’s angry side
The 57-year-old star once shared an incident where Agassi had expressed displeasure with her performance in a F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode involving Matt LeBlanc. She said, “Andre visited the soundstage to watch me shoot my Friends scene,” and continued that her then husband left the shoot after she played the scene where her character “a crazed fan who begins licking Joey’s fingers”.
She further spoke about Andre Agassi losing his cool and trying to break his trophies by saying, “Upon arrival, he systematically smashed and destroyed every single trophy he had won, Including Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, never mind all the others. It took me three years to have them all replaced.”
She further said, “I always believed his kids would one day want them.”
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Brooke Shields talked about her marriage with Andre Agassi
In one of her memoirs, Brooke Shields once expressed her emotions after getting married to the tennis ace. Although her marriage to Agassi took her away from her overbearing parents, she mentioned how she felt being controlled by the legendary tennis player at times. Brookes went on to discuss her ex-husband’s drug problem and sympathized with him, considering the hectic schedule of tennis players. They tied the knot in 1997 and separated two years later, in 1999.
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Thereafter, the eight-time Grand Slam winner fell in love once again with the German tennis legend Steffi Graf. The two legends of the sport tied the knot in 2001. The couple have two sons, and the eldest one has followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a professional baseball player.