Earlier this month, Tom Brady was the subject of a brutal celebrity roast where he was hit with a number of brutal jokes at his expense. But while Brady himself took the jokes like a champ, it sounds like it impacted his family, and he wasn’t happy about that.
During a recent episode of The Pivot podcast, Tom Brady revealed the brutal truth that he certainly did not like the way the roast and the jokes impacted his children.
“I loved when the jokes were about me, I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way it affected my kids,” Brady told hosts Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder. “It’s the hardest part about — the bittersweet aspect of — when you do something that you think is one way, and then all of a sudden you realize, I wouldn’t do that again because of the way that it affected, actually, the people that I care about the most in the world. It makes you in some ways a better parent, going through it, because sometimes you’re naive, you don’t know, or you get a little like, oh [shoot].”
While it didn’t go over the way that he had hoped, Brady is going to take it as a learning experience.
“Like I said, when I signed up for that, I love when people are making fun of me,” Brady added. “I wanted to do the roast because the guy (legendary roast comic) Jeff Ross became someone that I knew, you don’t see the full picture all the time. I think it’s a good lesson for me as a parent. I’m going to be a better parent as I go forward because of it, and at the same time I’m happy everyone who was there had a lot of fun.”
It’s clear that Brady has some regrets about subjecting his children to that.
