Jenn Sterger reveals ‘craziest half’ of Brett Favre textual content scandal
Former sports activities host Jenn Sterger introduced receipts in her first televised interview in over a decade after she accused Brett Favre of sending her inappropriate pictures when he was the Jets quarterback in 2008.
Sterger, who was a former in-game host for the Jets, reminisced on the well-known scandal within the new documentary, “The Fall of Favre,” which launched Tuesday as a part of the “Untold” sequence on Netflix — and he or she alleged she was stalked and harassed by Favre regardless of by no means assembly him in individual.
“So, right here’s the craziest half about the entire scandal — I’ve by no means met Brett Favre. We’ve by no means been in the identical room, we’ve by no means shaken fingers, we had no type of relationship, no rapport, nothing,” Sterger mentioned within the documentary.
“… I used to be by no means handled like an individual. I feel one of many the reason why it’s so arduous for folks to have any empathy for me on the web is as a result of I’m only a image to them and he was Brett Favre,” she mentioned whereas wiping away tears.
Sterger, now 41 and residing in Los Angeles, mentioned she declined invites to fulfill Favre by way of MySpace, texts and voicemails, which she revealed within the documentary.
Tim Andre, a former Jets worker who labored intently with Sterger on recreation days, alleged Sterger was “stalked and harassed” by Favre, who would attempt to get her consideration on the sidelines.
“She felt genuinely uncomfortable [and] threatened [when Favre started contacting her],” Andre mentioned. “… I may simply see it slowly sporting on her. Once we have been behind the scenes, you may see that she wasn’t as excited to be concerned [by Week 7 or 8] and the way may you blame her?
“… We’d be within the tunnel and he’s her and [making] eye contact, hand gestures, like making an attempt to speak to her, and I’m like, ‘This man is about to go play an NFL recreation, my God.’”
Sterger defined that Andre would escort her to and from a safety workplace within the stadium, the place she would sit in between her digicam hits as a result of she didn’t need to be on the sidelines close to Favre.
“Simply because I didn’t need to be out on the sphere,” she mentioned. “Anybody else I instructed simply type of shrugged me off, they have been similar to, ‘We’ll look into it.’”
Andre recalled a earlier dialog throughout which Sterger defined that her complaints have been being ignored.
“I bear in mind her talking about simply that, ‘Nobody’s listening to me, nobody cares,’” he recalled. “You’ve somebody working in your firm who feels that one other worker of your organization is stalking and harassing them. To not even it critically or simply even hear her out, to me that’s scary.”
Sterger got here ahead together with her allegations in opposition to Favre in 2010, two years after her contract with the Jets wasn’t renewed.
“On the finish of the 12 months my contract was not renewed — shocker,” she mentioned. “And I type of went into hiding. I simply wished to put the entire expertise behind me. It was too humiliating to speak to folks about what occurred to me.”
Favre, a three-time NFL MVP and Corridor of Famer, declined to be interviewed for the documentary.
The Jets didn’t reply to Netflix producers’ request for remark.
Sterger has since pursued a media profession, which incorporates earlier work at Sports activities Illustrated, NBC Sports activities and ABC, nonetheless the specific textual content message scandal derailed her broadcasting profession.
She can be a comic, an actress and a author.
“My life was ruined and he went to the Corridor of Fame,” Sterger mentioned within the documentary.
Sterger mentioned in earlier tweets that she was “wrongfully cancelled” and labeled “the Brett Favre lady.”
In April, Sterger introduced her participation within the Netflix docuseries and defined that she determined to speak concerning the scandal and supply “receipts” for her personal therapeutic.
“Final summer season, with the assistance of my therapists (sure, I’ve a workforce), household, and shut mates … I revisited arguably essentially the most troublesome time in my life and sat down for my first televised interview in over a decade,” Sterger wrote in her April 29 publish, referring to the Netflix docuseries. “And this time, I introduced receipts.
“There’s a lot of this story folks don’t know and so many assumptions which have been placed on me… that I noticed this story wanted to be instructed, if for no different motive than my very own therapeutic. And I’m certain some strangers with little to no data will soar into the feedback to ask me ‘WhY CaN’t YoU jUsT MoVe oN’ and my reply is ‘As a result of YOU received’t let me.’”
Sterger defined that she hasn’t been capable of escape the fallout from the scandal “that society thrust upon me like a scarlet letter.”
She added that “that is solely the start” her reclaiming her story.
Netflix’s “UNTOLD: The Fall of Favre” digs into the previous quarterback seismic rise to stardom and his different off-the-field controversies, together with alleged misappropriation of Mississippi welfare funds.
Favre has not been charged with any crime and denied any wrongdoing.
He stays a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by the Mississippi Division of Human Providers to get well misappropriated funds.
