In a brand new interview with the New Yorker, actress Brooke Shields shares that former husband Andre Agassi had an explosive response to her 1996 comedic activate Buddies, during which she portrayed Erika, a stalker obsessive about Joey Tribbiani’s character on Days of Our Lives, Dr. Drake Ramoray. Whereas the guest-starring function — which was a part of the present’s star-studded “The One After the Superbowl” episode — was meant to be enjoyable, the tennis champ’s response turned out to be something however.
Shields defined that Agassi, then her boyfriend, was so enraged by the slapstick nature of the function, that he went residence and “smashed all his trophies.”
“Who wins for that?” Shields instructed the publication. “That’s simply — don’t!”
Based on Shields, Agassi — to whom she was married from 1997 to 1999 — was within the studio watching her act reverse Buddies star Matt LeBlanc. Although producers initially scrapped parts of the scene — during which her character licks Joey’s fingers and throws her head again as she cackles — after rehearsal as a result of they anxious it was “too loopy,” they in the end modified their thoughts.
“They scream, ‘Shields! Put it again in!'” she shared. “Swiftly, the vitality modified, and all these males in fits began coming into the studio. The following day, I used to be requested if I needed to do my very own tv present.”
The previous youngster star, who would go on to star in NBC’s Immediately Susan after her Buddies gig, recounted filming the scene with LeBlanc.
“Within the scene, I’m purported to lick Joey’s fingers, as a result of they’re the palms of a genius, and I need to devour them, and I’m a nut.” she stated. “He was cute — he was, like, ‘I’ve washed my palms they usually’re all clear.’ I used to be, like, ‘I had a mint!'”
Agassi was much less charmed.
“Andre was within the viewers supporting me, and he stormed out,” stated Shields, who opens up about her life, together with a traumatic sexual assault, within the new two-part documentary, Fairly Child: Brooke Shields. “He stated, ‘All people’s making enjoyable of me. You made a idiot of me by that conduct.’ I’m, like, ‘It’s comedy! What’s the matter with you?'”
Shields later realized that Agassi was utilizing crystal meth round that point — one thing the athlete has spoken brazenly about — “in order that irrational conduct I’m certain had one thing to do with that.” He went on to go residence and smash up all his trophies.
Trying again, the actress — now married to TV author and producer Chris Henchy — sees Agassi’s response as “petulant conduct.” It additionally pulled the main target away from her performing and towards him.
Shields has spoken beforehand in regards to the downfall of her relationship with Agassi. In 2013, she addressed their cut up throughout an look on As we speak.
“I’m divorced,” Shields stated. “And mine was very fast and comparatively simple, however it’s a really attention-grabbing factor as a result of he — quote, unquote — did say to me, ‘Be blissful that we do not have kids or I’d not have made this simple for you.'”
Agassi, now married to former tennis star Steffi Graf, had beforehand shared that in that difficult interval of his life, he wasn’t able to sustaining a stable relationship.
“I believe at the moment in my life, I could not be married to anybody,” Agassi stated again in 2009 whereas selling his memoir, Open, on As we speak. “I believe timing is absolutely essential. You want in a wedding, two individuals who perceive themselves, and I actually did not perceive myself.”
