Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi had been married for some time earlier than their divorce and by all accounts it was a tumultuous relationship. In his 2009 autobiography, Andre Agassi detailed how the couple cut up and now Brooke Shields targeted on an episode simply earlier than the marriage. During the capturing of the sitcom Friends, Shields had a guest-starring function in an episode the place he performs the hunter of the character Joe, performed by Matt LeBlanc.
When the pair started relationship, Brooke Shields says that is how the main target shifted to Agassi. “Co-opted” provides her an excessive amount of credit score. It was offended behaviour. OK, I suppose you are proper. It picked it up emotionally for me, as a result of abruptly my focus was on him,” she tells The New Yorker. “Well, inform the story of what occurred.”
“In the scene, I want to lick Joey’s fingers, because they’re the hands of a genius, and I want to eat them, and I’m crazy. He was cute — he was, like, ‘I’ve washed my hands and They’re all clean.” I used to be, like, “I had Mint!” Agassi was on the shoot that day, sitting within the viewers.
“Andre was in the audience supporting me, and he passed out. He said, “Everybody’s making enjoyable of me. You fooled me with that habits. I’m like, “It’s comedy! What’s the matter with you?” I later discovered that he was hooked on crystal meth on the time, so I’m certain that irrational habits had one thing to do with it. [In his autobiography, Agassi wrote about using meth in 1997, a year after the “Friends” episode aired.]
And when interviewer Brooke Shields asks about Agassi’s response at residence after the capturing, she says, “Broke all his trophies. Who wins for that? That’s it—no!”
Agassi detailed in his guide how his relationship with Shields was tainted by jealousy and distrust between the 2. He additionally writes of how Shields used to place an image of Steffi Graf on the fridge. Agassi would later marry Graf.
He additionally mentions the Friends episode, and his passing after telling her, “The actor who performs Joey looks as if a pleasant man. When the scene begins, nonetheless, I notice I’m going to should kick his ass. Apparently the script tells Brooke to take Joey’s hand and lick it.
But she takes it a step additional, consuming her hand like an ice cream cone. Brooke is laughing. Joey is laughing. I’m staring, eyes broad. Brooke says nothing about hand licking. .
“On the next take, Brooke takes Joey’s hand and puts it in her mouth, up to the knuckles. I jump out of my seat, pushing through a side door. Brooke follows me. She grabs my hand and Where are you going? I don’t want to see you licking that guy’s hand, I say. Don’t do that, says Brooke. Me? Me? I’m not doing anything. Go back and enjoy yourself. Come on. Put some more hands up. I’m out of here,” Agassi wrote.
Shields saved a photograph of Steffi Graf on the fridge, Agassi wrote, for instance of the “ideal woman with perfect legs” that may encourage Shields to work on.
Agassi additionally wrote concerning the time he informed Shields that he was carrying a faux hairpiece to cover his baldness.
“We’re mendacity on a sofa. I stand up, punch the pillow, breathe.
Andre, what is that this?
It’s not straightforward to just accept, Brooke. But, look, my hair has been falling out for a very long time and I put on hairpieces to cowl it up.
I attain out, take her hand, put my hairpiece on. She smiles I had a sense, she says. it is not a giant deal. It’s your eyes that I discover engaging. and your coronary heart not your hair
Shields satisfied him, he writes, to have his head shaved, to his nice reduction.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
