Tom Brady said he was riding high after his Netflix roast in 2024. Then came the next morning and a conversation with his kids that, in his words, felt like “a stake through the heart.”
The former NFL quarterback reflected on the experience during an appearance on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast this month, nearly a year after the Netflix special aired. The roast—an hour-plus barrage of personal and professional jabs from celebrities including Kevin Hart, Nikki Glaser and Kim Kardashian—sparked viral clips and showed Brady’s willingness to laugh at himself. But the aftermath, he said, was far more complicated.
“It was tough on my kids, for sure,” Brady said. “They asked, ‘What was the point of that? Why did you do that?’”
Brady, 47, shares three children: 17-year-old Jack with actress Bridget Moynahan, and Benjamin, 15, and Vivian, 12, with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen. The special included jokes about Brady’s football legacy, relationships, and 2022 divorce from Bündchen—some of which left his children visibly upset.
“They’re protective of their mom, of their dad—of everybody,” he told Paul. “You do things as a parent that you think are one way, and then you realize after that it affected the people you care about the most.”
Brady recalled the emotional whiplash of coming off an adrenaline-charged event—”electric,” as he described it—only to be confronted by his children’s disappointment. “I love laughing at myself,” he said. “But I do understand for my kids it was really hard.”
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One of the more pointed jokes referenced Bündchen’s relationship with jiujitsu instructor Joaquim Valente. While Brady didn’t cite the line directly, it was widely circulated online.
Brady addressed the fallout previously on The Pivot podcast, saying, “I wouldn’t do that again because of the way that it affected the people I care about the most in the world.”
Brady emphasized the lessons learned: “There’s no perfect manual for parenting. You’ve got to be available and you’ve got to be present. That’s where the parenting happens—not in the big moments. A lot of times, it’s in the small moments.”
Brady said he’s taken that message to heart. “When you hear how your kids feel, it changes everything.”
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