2026-09-25 · New York Post
🔮 The book details how the supermodel asked Brady about retiring in 2017, but he said he was having “too much run right now,” and one year later wrote him a handwritten letter asking him to reconsider.
She opened up about how she felt their marriage was failing and she and their children needed him more.
The couple went to marriage counseling but remained together, and Brady left the Patriots for the Buccaneers begginning in the 2020 season.
He led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl that season and bowed out in the NFC Divisional Round the following year before deciding to retire.
But that only lasted 40 days, with Brady opting to return for what would be his 23rd season.
Those in the Buccaneers organization, though, noticed a new man walking through the doors and “nearly everyone in the building worried he was ill, maybe even battling a serious disasese,” per Anderson.
Teammates estimated he lost 20 pounds and his “vibrancy” had waned.
“For Tom to lose that much weight, on his frame, it was a lot,” former Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians tells Anderson in the book, as relayed by the Daily Mail. assertive
The Aporia