Jennifer Sterger shows no sympathy to Brett Favre after Parkinson's disease revelation - "Karma never forgets"
Brett Favre has Parkinson's disease, as he revealed on Tuesday in a Congressional hearing regarding his involvement in the Mississippi welfare fund scandal. Normally that would elicit sympathy from the general public, but at least one person thinks he deserved to have the ailment.
Jennifer Sterger, a model, columnist, and television personality who once accused the Hall-of-Fame quarterback of sending her inappropriate messages and images during his time with the New York Jets, went to her Instagram Stories to express her thoughts on the revelation. She did not hold back, expressing her disgust at him:
The incidents occurred in 2008, but they did not become public until two years later. When confronted, Favre did acknowledge attempting to invite Sterger to his hotel room via voicemail but denied sending graphic images. He would be fined $50,000 by the NFL for his actions.
Brett Favre’s Parkinson’s diagnosis: What it means to the sport of football, according to experts
Meanwhile, the revelation of Brett Favre’s Parkinson’s diagnosis has reignited the discussion of its links to the sport of football. With the help of multiple studies as well as the legendary quarterback’s 2022 interview for The Bubba Army radio program, NBC News’ Aria Bendix and Randi Richardson decided to reinvestigate the topic.
Among the personalities they interviewed was Shannon Shaffer, a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic and liaison at software and data analytics company Rune Labs, who said:
“We know that the brain can only take so much, and when there’s this kind of trauma — not even just sports-related, but any kind of repeated trauma to the brain — we know it’s going to affect it down the line.”
Meanwhile, Thor Stein, director of Boston University’s CTE Center and an author of one of the studies that sought to prove a link between Parkinson’s and football, believes that CTE can be a trigger for Parkinson's. His co-author Hannah Bruce, however, opines that it can be hard to determine how large a role football can play in someone like Favre contracting it.
Dr. Kevin Crutchfield, a neurologist at Hackensack Meridian Health, warned that Parkinson’s could not just be automatically diagnosed in football players.
The NFL so far has declined to comment on the situation.