Tom Brady had already released a statement following the end of his marriage to Gisele Bündchen, but now he is speaking more in depth about the end of his 13-year union to the supermodel.
On his newest Let’s Go! podcast episode, via Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback. He told sportscaster Jim Gray that he was focused on taking care of his family through the rough period of his life while trying to get his team out of this funk and win games.
“There’s a lot of professionals in life that go through things that they deal with at work and they deal with at home,” Brady said, via the New York Post. “And obviously the good news is it’s a very amicable situation and I’m really focused on two things: taking care of my family and certainly my children, secondly doing the best job I can to win football games.
“So, that’s what professionals do. You focus at work when it’s time to work and then when you come home you focus on the priorities that are at home. All you can do is the best you can do. That’s what I’ll continue to do as long as I’m working and as long as I’m being a dad.”
Brady also gave his take of trying to compartmentalize his personal and family life and his professional life as the quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“I think that’s what being a professional is,” Brady said. “I’ve dealt with a lot of challenging situations on and off the field in 23 years, and a lot of it does play out in front of a lot of people. I think the interesting thing for a football player or athlete in general is we’re not actors even though we’re on TV. That is our real self out there. We’re just trying to do our best. That’s how people have really gotten to know me over the years, by being on TV. That is an authentic self that is out there to compete with my teammates every day, and you’re giving all you can to the team.”
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Brady and Bündchen announced their divorce Friday which was less than 24 hours after his team lost to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night. The ex-couple has two kids together as the quarterback co-parents a son with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.
The finalized divorce ended months of speculation surrounding the couple that started after he cam out of retirement 40 days after stepping away from football.
Tom Brady will hope to get his team back on their winning ways when they play the Los Angeles Rams in a rematch of last season’s NFC Divisional Round playoff game.
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