Brett Favre's Wife Deanna Favre Opened Up About Their Struggles
Is Brett Favre still married? Yes. The couple made it through their issues, and Deanna has been open about that.
The couple's relationship is back in the headlines with a new Netflix documentary, Untold: The Fall of Favre, which focuses heavily on Favre's 2010 scandal in which he was accused of sending a lurid photo and messages to a New York Jets gameday host named Jenn Sterger. Sterger describes the behavior as unwanted in the documentary.
Deanna Favre has not held back on the fact that the couple faced struggles in their marriage and lives. She has been very open about it over the years.
'I'm handling this through faith,' Deanna Favre said, when asked about the Sterger accusations, according to the documentary.
Favre's wife wrote a lengthy article for Guideposts, in which she discusses various tragedies, including being diagnosed with breast cancer, her brother's death in an ATV accident, and Brett Favre's addiction to painkillers.
"That first week of October 2004 was tough, one of those weeks where right out of the blue your life will never be the same again," she wrote.
When she found out she had breast cancer, "Brett was on the phone in minutes. All he could say was, 'Oh, God,'" she wrote in that article, recounting how they grew up together in small-town Mississippi, going to high school together. They ended up having two daughters together and are still married today.
According to People, Favre and his wife met at age 14, and she became pregnant with their first child at 19.
In college, they had a rough patch, Deanna wrote, when she discovered Favre "had become a loud, rough party animal" and had a "mean" side.
Deanna Favre revealed, "He was horribly addicted to painkillers, partly as a result of all the injuries he played with. We got through that. He went to The Menninger Clinic and got help. We went through counseling together and he was once again the best friend I'd ever had—and by now my husband."
Over the years, they broke up but always got back together.
'There were times when we were broken up and we were seeing other people, but we still talked,' Deanna told The Journal Times. 'I always knew if the relationship didn't work out, we could always be friends.'
They married in 1996 and had their second child together in 1999, People reported.
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