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Brett Favre’s gridiron glory overshadows his unchecked behavior in the new trailer for the documentary on the controversial NFL legend, Untold: The Fall of Favre.
Directed by Rebecca Gitlitz, the latest episode of the Untold series primarily digs into Favre’s deification as a quarterback and the various scandals he’s found himself embroiled in. The trailer pays particular attention to Favre’s alleged connection to a scheme to misappropriate welfare funds in Mississippi, as well as the allegations that he sexted and left inappropriate voicemails for Jenn Sterger, who served as the New York Jets’ “Gameday Host” in the late 2000s when Favre played for the team.
“Brett Favre ultimately destroyed my life,” Sterger says in the trailer, adding later: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
But as the trailer shows, the doc also appears interested in drawing a connection between this alleged pattern of bad behavior and Favre’s football glory. “He starts to go through life thinking, ‘I can do whatever I want,’” one interviewee says in the clip. “At what level does that stop?”
Favre, for his part, never faced criminal charges in the Mississippi misappropriation scandal, though he did repay over $1 million in state welfare funds in 2020 and 2021. (He’s been accused in a civll suit of owing statutory interest.) Meanwhile, the NFL investigated Favre’s sexting scandal at the time and found that he had not violated the league’s personal conduct policy; he was, however, fined $50,000 for not cooperating with the investigation.
In a statement, Gitlitz said of the doc: “This story about one of the greatest quarterbacks in history goes beyond touchdowns and epic wins and lifts the lid on how, when fame rises, sometimes accountability falls. It was made with the intention of laying out patterns of behaviors, told by the people who lived with the consequences of Favre’s actions, to ask audiences to consider if success should be a shield for harmful behavior.”
Premiering May 20 on Netflix, The Fall of Favre is one of three new installments of Untold hitting the streaming service next month. There’ll also be a doc on the Liver King — the fitness and “ancestral lifestyle” influencer who ate raw meat and admitted to using steroids — and the infamous locker room gun incident between NBA teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton.
