Tom Brady Regrets His Netflix Roast After Seeing His Kids’ Reactions: ‘It Felt Like A Stake Through The Heart’

Emily BaxterMay 9, 2025, 2:34 pmHome Featured, News >

Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady says he’s had second thoughts about his infamous Comedy Central roast.

“I regret that my kids had to, you know, it’s tough on my kids for sure,” Brady told Logan Paul on his Impaulsive podcast. “I love laughing at myself. It felt like I was in a locker room. And the harder people go at me, I actually love it. If people make fun of you, then I know I’m good with them.

“And like I said earlier, I don’t take myself too serious. But I do understand, like for my kids, that was really hard. There’s some things as a parent you f–- up and you don’t realize until after.

Brady previously admitted, “I screwed up a lot as a parent” back in 2024.

“So even though I really enjoyed the show, and the performances were incredible,” he continued. “When you were in that moment, in that theater that night at the Forum, it was electric. It was crazy. We got done, everybody was on cloud nine. I think that moment I’ll never forget. And then I’ll never forget when I talked to my kids the next day. I felt like a stake through the heart, understandably.”

“Were they mad? Sad?” Impaulsive cohost Mike Majlak asked.

“They’re protective,” he corrected. “Of their mom, of their dad, of everybody.”

He explained his kids wanted to know, “What was the point of that?” and “Why did you do that?”

Paul and his wife, Nina Agdal, welcomed a daughter in September 2024, and as a new father, he asked Brady for some parenting advice.

“F–– ing up seems kind of inevitable, and that’s a heavy feeling because now you’re affecting a person’s life, right? A person you really love,” Paul said. “A lot of really successful people have f–– ed up childhoods. Any kid going through stuff, do you think if they can make it through the other side and learn from it, it actually hardens them in a way that’s positive?”

“Yeah, I think we… getting toughened up is a good thing, getting roughed up in a lot of things,” Brady replied. “‘Cause you have perspective too, and you have empathy for people who are going through situations, too. I went through a lot of different adversities. They all challenged me, and when I did make it through, you’re right, I gained a lot of self-confidence and self-esteem dealing with adversities and overcoming them.

“All the hardest things that happened in your life, when you look back, they shaped you the most, and they end up being the best things.”