Getty Image
Jenn Sterger has not been shy about firing shots at Brett Favre due to the wildly inappropriate advances she was forced to endure when he was playing for the Jets, and she does not appear to have a ton of sympathy for the quarterback who recently revealed he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
It’s been close to 20 years since Jenn Sterger found herself thrust into the spotlight (with some help from Brent Musburger) after she was prominently featured in a crowd shot while attending a football game during her time at Florida State, and she took full advantage of the opportunities that came her way as a result.
Sterger ended up posing for Maxim and Playboy before the New York Jets hired her to serve as a “Gameday Host” during the 2008 season—the first (and only) time Brett Favre suited up in green and white after spending 16 seasons with the Packers.
Sterger eventually ended up collaborating with Deadspin for a project that led to the publication of a bombshell report that dropped in 2010 concerning the lewd voicemails and explicit photos a (married) Favre sent her on multiple occasions, which sparked an NFL investigation where the league failed to definitively determine the QB had sent the pictures put nonetheless hit him with a $50,000 fine for failing to cooperate.
Sterger has been pretty candid about the impact the scandal had on her mental health and career, and she’s been one of Favre’s most vocal critics in the wake of another one involving his links to the Mississippi health officials who embezzled $77 million worth of welfare funds.
On Tuesday, the 54-year-old Favre (who wasn’t hit with criminal charges but agreed to repay the $1.1 million he received for speaking engagements he never actually completed) testified at a congressional hearing concerning the matter and dropped a bombshell of his own by revealing he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
According to a post that subsequently appeared on Sterger’s Instagram Story, she was flooded with messages from people informing her of that development, and she made her feelings very clear by saying “Karma never forgets an address” while throwing some more shade at Favre over the welfare money.
Jenn Sterger/Instagram
That’s pretty brutal, but it’s hard to blame her.