Andre Agassi Shares Update on His Relationship with Ex Brooke Shields

For Andre Agassi, any issues he had with ex Brooke Shields are water under the bridge.

While speaking to Us Weekly about his first-ever Agassi Open Play Day at Life Time Green Valley event on April 12, in honor of National Pickleball Month, Agassi gave Us an update on where he stands with Shields.

“I have always wished nothing but the best for her,” Agassi, 54, said when asked about Shields’ latest book, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old. “I guess maybe one of the reasons why I don’t know much about it is because I don’t want to be in a position to necessarily comment on it one way or another, except rooting for her. I mean, at the end of the day love wins and I try to love everyone.”

The pair were married from 1997 to 1999 and divorced in large part due to Agassi’s admitted drug addiction. In her latest memoir, the model and actress admitted she’s happy she never had a child with Agassi.

“I’m glad I never got pregnant with my first husband because it would have been a disaster,” Shields, 59, wrote. “When we got divorced he made that very clear.”

She added that Agassi told her to “be thankful we didn’t have children” when they split “because I would not have made this easy for you.”

“Well, thank you for that tidbit, I thought,” Shields quipped in the memoir. “You just made this particular transition much easier!”

“One of the reasons I married Andre was that I liked being in a relationship with someone more famous than I was,” Shields explained elsewhere in the book. “After a lifetime of always being the focus, it was a relief to be able to slink into the background a bit. He was a gallant guy, too, and I loved that.”

But the relationship had plenty of dark sides, too. “When I would profess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.’ However, when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ I could never have expected his response,” Shields wrote.

Agassi’s reply, according to Shields, was: “I love you too much to let you get big and fat!”

Agassi has been married to Steffi Graf since 2001 and the pair have two children together, Jaden, 23, and Jaz, 21. Shields married her husband Chris Henchy the same year and they also have two children, daughters Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18.

With reporting by Rachel Smith