Wasser agreed wholeheartedly with Shields. The arguing - these are the people that become most affected when we start making about ourselves instead of the children.” Shields said during her Today Show interview with Wasser, “The idea that once children come in there’s a whole other level to. I wish I had a decoy groom to take my place.” Brooke Shields caught smoking pot? >īoth Shields and Agassi have since remarried other people and both have children with their new spouses. “I have a thought no man should have on his wedding day: I wish I were leaving too. Later, when Agassi released his autobiography, Open, he wrote that on his wedding day he knew that his marriage to Shields would fail.

Instead of seeing the hero tennis star that the whole world is cheering, was saying, ‘He’s going to be a great father.'”Īndre Agassi abruptly filed for divorce from Brooke Shields on Ap- less than two weeks shy of the couple’s second wedding anniversary. “I remember her saying what an amazing father Andre was going to be - that more than anything he was going to be unbelievable with children. During an interview with People magazine published the day after Agassi filed for divorce, Errico said she often sat next to Shields during tennis matches and explained that Shields saw Andre more as the future father of her children than an iconic American tennis player.īrooke Shields on Miley Cyrus’ VMAs performance: “I was Hannah Montana’s mother!” > Melissa Errico, the wife of legendary professional tennis player Patrick McEnroe, said Shields was totally captivated by Andre Agassi. Shields’ comments on the Today Show starkly contrast the way she viewed Agassi over the course of their several-year relationship. “And mine was fairly quick, and relatively easy, but it’s a very interesting thing because he did say to me, ‘Be happy that we don’t have children or I would not have made this easy for you.’ And therein lies why I am not there anymore.”īrooke Shields married Andre Agassi in 1997 during one of the most challenging times of his professional career. “I am divorced,” said Shields to Geist and Wasser.

SheKnows Exclusive: Brooke Shields shares insight into stardom and motherhood >īrooke recounted a painful conversation she had with then-husband Andre Agassi during their own divorce proceedings, and urged other couples to be aware of the intense, unique dynamics of divorce when children are involved. Shields was a guest co-host for the Today Show earlier this week along with regular host Willie Geist, and the two sat down with celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser as she promoted her new book, It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way: How to Divorce Without Destroying Your Family or Bankrupting Yourself. Brooke Shields was unusually candid about her divorce from professional tennis player Andre Agassi during an interview with high-profile divorce attorney Laura Wasser.

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