Brooke Shields: Andre Agassi smashed his trophies when I licked Matt LeBlanc
nypost.comcareer-changing cameo in a 1996 episode of “Friends” — but it propelled her then-husband Andre Agassi into a violent, destructive fit of rage.In “The One After the Super Bowl” episode of the classic NBC sitcom, a hilarious Shields stole scenes as soap star Joey Tribbiani’s (Matt LeBlanc) finger-licking stalker, Erika.Alas, tennis legend Agassi, an eight-time major champion and an Olympic gold medalist, wasn’t laughing.After one scene showed the LeBlanc and Shields getting a little too intimate — yes, the “Pretty Baby” icon tongued his digits — the seething racket champ stormed out of the studio audience.
The “Blue Lagoon” icon was scripted and directed to lick LeBlanc’s fingers “because they’re the hands of a [surgical] genius … and I [wanted] to devour them, and I’m a nut,” she told told The New Yorker in new interview.“[Agassi] said, ‘Everybody’s making fun of me.
You made a fool of me by that behavior,’ ” Shields, 57, recalled. “I’m, like, ‘It’s comedy! What is the matter with you?’ ” The actress and author later learned that Agassi, 52, was abusing crystal meth at the time. “So that irrational behavior I’m sure had something to do with that,” she said.
However, as soon as the pair got home, Agassi “smashed all his trophies.” The Post has reached out to Agassi’s reps for comment.
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