Brett Favre revealed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. He was present in the hearing to talk about his involvement in the Mississippi welfare fund scandal.
His revelation caught sympathy from the general public, but one person feels his disease is karma’s payback.
Model, TV personality, and former Sports Illustrated columnist Jennifer Sterger did not hold back as she took to Instagram to express her thoughts on Favre’s revelation and his involvement in the fund scandal.
“Please don’t send me links to it. I’ve seen it. I can read,” Sterger prefaced her Instagram story. “I don’t wish bad things on anyone, but I know karma never forgets an address.”
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Sterger also expressed her sympathy for other patients afflicted with Parkinson’s disease. “Imagine being diagnosed with such a terrible disease and not having the resources to fight it [because] some Hall of Fame quarterback stole it? Those are the people that need your attention, support, and sympathy,” she said.
Jennifer Sterger accused Brett Favre of sending her inappropriate messages and images during his stint with the New York Jets. The incidents took place in 2008, but it would take two years before they became public.
Brett Favre eventually acknowledged attempting to invite Sterger to his hotel room via voicemail but he didn’t admit to sending graphically obscene images. The NFL would penalize him with a $50,000 fine for his actions.
What Brett Favre’s Parkinson’s diagnosis means to football, according to experts
Brett Favre’s revelation of his Parkinson’s diagnosis has reawakened the discussion of the disease’s links to football. NBC News’ Aria Bendix and Randi Richardson reinvestigated the topic with the help of multiple studies and Favre’s 2022 interview for the “Bubba Army” radio program.
Bendix and Richardson interviewed Shannon Shaffer, a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic and liaison at software and data analytics company Rune Labs.
“We know that the brain can only take so much, and when there’s this kind of trauma—not even just sports-related, but any kind of repeated trauma to the brain—we know it’s going to affect it down the line,” Shaffer said.
Thor Stein, the director of Boston University’s CTE Center, authored one of the studies that sought to prove a connection between Parkinson’s and football. While he believes CTE can trigger Parkinson’s, his co-author Hanna Bruce said it can be hard to determine how big a role football can play in someone to contract the disease.
Meanwhile, Dr. Kevin Crutchfield, a neurologist at Hackensack Meridian Health, said that Parkinson’s could not just be automatically diagnosed in football players like Favre.
The NFL so far has yet to comment on the topic.
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