Drew Bledsoe had some help preparing for Sunday’s roast of his former teammate, Tom Brady.
When recapping his appearance on Netflix’s “Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady,” the ex-Patriots quarterback — who torched Brady over his divorce from Gisele Bündchen — said Monday on “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” that his wife of 28 years assisted with the writing.
“My brother, one of the funniest humans I know, he helped out and then — I’m going to get in really, really big trouble for this, but I’m willing to wear it, the Gisele joke, that actually came from my wife. Don’t tell her I told you,” Bledsoe said of wife Maura.
“But the truth is, it was a replacement for a joke that I had written that was far worse and she said, ‘No, you can’t do that one.’ And so she helped me write something that was a little bit more of a softball.”
Bledsoe pulled no punches with his former protege, who took over the quarterback’s starting role in New England shortly into the 2001 season, stating Sunday, “You know, obviously buddy, you got really used to not be touched, right, just like the end of the marriage.”
The 52-year-old Bledsoe continued the ribbing with a wedding anniversary shot.
“Hey look, buddy, you have more rings than I do, but I’ve experienced a couple of things that you will never experience: the feeling of being the No. 1 overall draft pick in the NFL, and a 28th wedding anniversary. It was yesterday,” Bledsoe told Brady, a sixth-round draft pick in 2000.
Bledsoe was one of many who taunted Brady, 46, over his divorce from Bündchen, which was finalized in October 2022 after 13 years of marriage.
The 43-year-old supermodel is said to be “deeply disappointed by the disrespectful portrayal of her family on Sunday evening’s roast show,” according to People.
Bündchen, who shares son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11, with Brady, is focused on her family amid the fallout, with a source telling the outlet: “As always, [Bündchen’s] priority is to support her children who were affected by the irresponsible content that was broadcasted.”
Elsewhere on “The Dan Le Batard Show,” Bledsoe addressed Brady’s tense on-stage moment with comedian Jeff Ross, who made a Robert Kraft “massage” joke.
“That was not scripted. That was Tom actually genuinely coming to his defense,” Bledsoe said of the Patriots owner.
Ross offered a similar sentiment Monday on “The Rich Eisen Show.”
“He’s having fun. You know, it’s like that’s his dad. Robert Kraft is like a father figure to him, he was just showing his love for Robert Kraft,” Ross said.
