Jenn Sterger Breaks Down Speaking About Fallout From Brett Favre Sext Scandal

Jenn Sterger is opening up about how the preliminary media protection surrounding Brett Favre’s 2010 sexting scandal has impacted her life.

Sterger, 41, discovered herself on the heart of the 2010 scandal after a Deadspin report claimed that Favre had despatched her {a photograph} of his genitals, in addition to various different unsolicited textual content messages and voicemails through which he had made undesirable advances towards the New York Jets gameday host.

The controversy is the centerpiece of Netflix’s new documentary, UNTOLD: The Fall of Favre, which follows the previous NFL quarterback’s public downfall and begins streaming Might 20.

“I used to be by no means handled like an individual,” Sterger says throughout one emotional scene, which incorporates clips of media personalities and followers on the time casting blame on her for the previous quarterback’s scandal.

“I believe one of many the explanation why it’s so laborious for individuals to have any empathy for me on the web is as a result of I’m only a image to them,” Sterger says. “And he was Brett Favre.”

UNTOLD: The Fall of Favre follows the now 55-year-old former quarterback’s preliminary rise as a Inexperienced Bay Packers star within the Nineteen Nineties to his tumultuous fall from grace within the late 2000s and 2010s, going from a soccer hero to a former athlete who has been accused of each sexual harassment and siphoning authorities funds meant to assist the poor.

Favre, who has lengthy denied wrongdoing within the Mississippi welfare scandal, refused to be interviewed for the documentary.

Nevertheless, Sterger agreed to take a seat down with Netflix producers to debate what occurred between her and Favre, how his inappropriate advances towards the sports activities persona had been made public in opposition to her needs, and the way the general public’s response to it impacted her life.

Sterger at one level explains “the craziest half” of the entire scandal is that she and Favre have by no means met. “I’ve by no means met him,” says Sterger, who labored for the Jets throughout Favre’s one season with the group in 2008 however by no means crossed paths with the quarterback. “We’ve by no means been in the identical room. We’ve by no means shaken fingers. We had no type of relationship, no rapport, nothing.”

Sterger explains that Favre first observed her from afar in a stadium tunnel earlier than a Jets recreation. The quarterback allegedly requested a Jets staffer to get Sterger’s quantity for him, which Sterger says the worker gave to Favre with out her permission. Favre then started sending texts and later started leaving lewd voicemails. Then, Favre allegedly despatched Sterger an unsolicited image of his genitals.

However Sterger by no means made the interplay public herself.

Two years later, Sterger tells Netflix she casually talked about the unsolicited textual content from Favre throughout a dialog with fellow sports activities journalist A.J. Daulerio, who was the editor-in-chief of Deadspin on the time and later printed the knowledge with out Sterger’s consent. 

“I had mentioned to some individuals, on the finish of this, if there are two scumbags out of this case, it’s myself and Brett Favre,” Daulerio informed CNN’s Dependable Sources program in a clip proven through the Netflix doc.

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Sterger, who had made a profession as a sports activities media persona within the years previous to the Favre scandal, says she started to draw back from having a public profile after the media firestorm that adopted the sexting scandal. 

The Netflix doc additionally consists of interviews with Sterger’s bodyguard throughout Jets video games, who referred to as Favre’s actions “disgusting,” in addition to different sports activities media personalities, reporters and former NFL gamers who all place the blame squarely on Favre all through the episode.

“We’ve simply seen this stuff play out too many occasions,” sports activities media persona Jemele Hill, says within the doc. “We all know that in the case of a famous person athlete being accused of inappropriate habits with a girl, it’s the lady who’s gonna get the brunt of it. No person’s questioning why a married man could be sending these type of pictures to a girl he doesn’t know. This girl — who needed no a part of this, who was solely attempting to do her job, solely attempting to make a profession path for herself — that she needs to be subjugated to that’s telling.”

UNTOLD: The Fall of Favre is streaming now on Netflix.