Andre Agassi was so jealous of Friends scene where girlfriend Brooke Shields licked Joey's fingers that he destroyed every tennis trophy he'd ever won
- Andre Agassi smashed Wimbledon and US open trophies in a jealous rage
- Actress Brooke Shields said he stormed off set during filming for Friends
- Tennis star was angry that she licked Joey's fingers and started laughing
- He told actress she made him look 'like a fool' in scene with Matt LeBlanc
- She revealed it took her three years to have all the trophies replaced
Andre Agassi smashed his prized Wimbledon
cup and every tennis trophy he had in a jealous rage after watching his
then girlfriend Brooke Shields film a scene for Friends.
The
'Blue Lagoon' beauty was in the middle of filming one of the most
popular episodes of the show when Mr Agassi stormed off the set.
He
had been watching on the sound stage as guest star Shields licked the
fingers of Joey, played by Matt LeBlanc, and threw her head back with
maniacal laughter.
But the tennis champion told his then girlfriend she had 'made him look a fool' in the scene with actor Matt Leblanc.
Ms Shields wrote that her beau got in his car in Los Angeles and drove all the way home to Las Vegas.
'Upon arrival he systematically smashed
and destroyed every single trophy he had won, including Wimbledon and
the US Open, never mind all the others, ' she added, according to Globe
magazine in the US.
In her memoir,
'There Was A Little Girl: The Real Story of Mother and Me,' Shields says
it took her three years to have all the trophies replaced after the
1995 incident.
Agassi, now 44, won the Wimbledon
singles title in 1992 and went on to claim four Australian titles, two
US Opens and the French Open in a glittering 20-year career.
Despite the flashpoint, the former child star and the tennis champion wed in April 1997.
It
would be another two years before they divorced just shy of their
second wedding anniversary but Shields wrote that it didn't take her
long to wish she'd never gone through with the ceremony.
The day after the wedding in Big Sur, California, she realised she had made a 'mistake.'
'I
could not form a sentence. I kept shaking my head as if I had duct tape
across my mouth. It hit me all of a sudden - I knew I had made a
mistake. I did not want to be married…I wanted to be a bride but I
shouldn't have been married yet,' she wrote.
The couple were busy working apart for much of their marriage and Shields said the relationship was 'just existing.'
Later,
she wrote that Agassi had broken down and told her 'that for the whole
first part of our relationship he had been addicted to crystal meth.
'I was shocked but immediately got hurt and insulted that he had not come to me at the time.'
She added: 'I feared our life together was not based in absolute truth.'
A candid autobiography written by Agassi also suggests the lavish wedding to the actress was a mistake.
From
the four helicopters full of paparazzi circling overhead to the groom
wearing elevator shoes to avoid being dwarfed by his towering
bride, the celebration is rendered in 'Open' as a bleak farce.
'I
have a thought no man should have on his wedding day: I wish I were
leaving too. I wish I had a decoy groom to take my place,' he revealed
in his autobiography.
Soon after his
divorce in 1999, Mr Agassi began wooing Steffi Graf, another former
tennis prodigy, who, Agassi says, loathed the game as much as he did but
surpassed him in disciplined, competitive fury.
Speaking
14 years after the break-up, Shields revealed that the tennis star had
told her it was fortunate they did not have children.
She
said: 'I am divorced. And mine was very quick and relatively easy but
it's a very interesting thing because he - quote, unquote - did say to
me, 'Be happy that we don't have children or I would not have made this
easy for you.''
She added with a laugh, 'And therein lies why I'm not there anymore.'
The
former 'Suddenly Susan' sitcom star briefly dated John Travolta, Liam
Neeson, JFK Jr. and was close friends with Michael Jackson.
Shields
also wrote about her platonic fling with gay Wham! singer George
Michael, saying her mother Teri helped set them up on a date.
After
a romantic hotel dinner in Chicago she said the star walked her to her
room. 'He left without even trying to kiss me. I was so touched by what a
real gentleman he was (I wanted to yell, 'Wait, please don't go go!'
After
going on a couple more dates and shopping trips, Ms Shields wrote that
she was 'devastated' when Mr Michael dumped her, saying, 'I think we
need to take a break. I need to concentrate on my career.'
She added she cried herself to sleep 'for weeks.'
Shields, now 49 , remarried in 2001 to TV writer Chris Henchy and they have two daughters, Rowan 10, and Grier, seven.
In
the memoir, published on November 18, she also discusses her mother's
lifelong battle with drinking and the public misconception that she
forced her daughter into projects she didn't want to do.
The actress was at her mother's side when she died in October 2012 after a decline into dementia.
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