Tom Brady shares regrets about taking part in his Netflix roast
"It felt like a stake through the heart. “They were just like, ‘Why did you do that?’”
It’s been over a year since Tom Brady was eviscerated by stand-up comics, celebrities, and several former Patriots as part of his roast special on Netflix.
The special drew several viral moments as the former Patriots QB was burned over topics such as his divorce from Gisele Bundchen, some ill-advised business decisions, and more.
Brady noted during Logan Paul’s “IMPAULSIVE” podcast this week that he had no issue with the jokes directed toward him during the three-hour special — which reportedly drew two million viewers on the night of the broadcast, per Forbes.
“I love laughing at myself. It felt like I was in a locker room,” Brady said of the roast, as transcribed by Sarah Mesdjian of The Boston Globe. “It was electric, … We got done, everybody was on cloud nine. I think that moment, I’ll never forget.”
But Brady added that even if he didn’t have an issue with the jokes about himself, he didn’t take into consideration the impact it would have on his family.
“There’s some things as a parent you [expletive] up and you don’t realize until after,” Brady said of talking with his children the day after the special, adding: “It felt like a stake through the heart. “They were just like, ‘Why did you do that?’”
“They’re protective of their mom, their dad, of everybody,” Brady continued. “You don’t mind yourself hurting, you don’t want to see your parents hurt, you don’t want to see your kids hurt.”
This is not the first time that Brady has shown some contrition for taking part in the roast.
Just weeks after the special was broadcast, Brady acknowledged on the “Pivot Podcast” that he “wouldn’t do that again.”
“You do something that you think [will go] one way, and then all of a sudden you realize, ‘I wouldn’t do that again because of the way that affected the people that I care about the most in the world,’” Brady told ex-NFLers Fred Taylor, Ryan Clark, and Channing Crowder.
“I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun,” he added. “I didn’t like the way that it affected my kids.”
While the writing was on the wall that Brady and his family were going to be at the mercy of the roasters, the former Patriots QB admitted that he was “naive” going into the show.
“I think it’s a good lesson for me as a parent,” Brady said last May. “I’m going to be a better parent as I go forward because of it. At the same time, I’m happy everyone who was there had a lot of fun.”
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