Brooke Shields is opening up about her ex-husband's rage due to her Friends cameo.
and opened up about her cameo onThe actress discusses her guest-star moment on the famous sitcom and the explosive reaction her then-significant other, tennis star Andre Agassi, had upon seeing the episode.Shields portrayed Erika, a woman who starts stalking Joey Tribbiani, played by Matt LeBlanc, after becoming obsessed with hisIn the 1996 episode,"The One After the Super Bowl, Part 1," Joey decides to go on a date with her.
"Unpacking that. It really had just begun too," Shields says."And, you know, the irony of it too is that the extreme sort of behaviors were not dissimilar to what it was like living with an alcoholic, you know, and loving an alcoholic, you know, that sort of night and day that, you know, Jekyll Hyde, all that kind of stuff. So it wasn't, it wasn't really scary. I mean, I spent the next couple years trying to get those trophies all replicated.
In 1997, Shields and the former No. 1 tennis player tied the knot. The couple met in 1993 and shared similar experiences with childhood fame and troubling parental relationships. However, after saying "I do" four years later, their marriage quickly deteriorated. Two years later, in 1999, Shields and Agassi divorced -- and one of the primary reasons, Shields says, was the Olympian’s substance abuse issues.
"I was so madly in love with him, since the time I was like three, my mom would say, 'That's the boy you're going to marry, that's the boy you're going to marry.'"
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