Tom Brady says his kids’ reaction to his roast was ‘a stake through the heart’

Tom Brady wasn’t fazed by his Netflix roast last year, but his children weren’t exactly thrilled with it.

It’s been one year since the special aired on Netflix and featured a mix of light and hard-hitting jokes about the former football player. Now, he’s looking back on the impact it had on his three kids.

While appearing on the May 6 episode of Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast, Brady said watching the roast was “really hard” for his children.

“It was tough on my kids for sure,” he said.

The 47-year-old has a son named Jack, 17, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan and two children — a 15-year-old son named Benjamin and a 12-year-old daughter named Vivian — with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen.

Brady clarified that he loves “laughing at myself” and felt like he was “in the locker room” while listening to stars like Kevin Hart, Nikki Glaser and Kim Kardashian roast him.

But the special touched on some topics that surely hit close to home for his kids. Although Brady didn’t address it directly, one of the most hard-hitting jokes during the special was related to his divorce from Bündchen.

“They’re protective of their mom, of their dad, of everybody. They (were) just like, ‘What was the point of that? Why did you do that?’” he recalled.

The former quarterback described the energy while filming the roast as “electric,” saying it was a “moment I’ll never forget.” But he added that he was brought back down to Earth when he heard his children’s reaction.

“I’ll never forget when I talked to my kids the next day. I felt like a stake through the heart, understandably,” he said.

Although the seven-time Super Bowl champ couldn’t go back in time and decide not to do the roast, he did learn a valuable lesson from the experience.

“There’s some things as a parent you f— up, and you don’t realize until after. We’re not perfect parents. You’ll see as you grow up, there’s no perfect manual for it,” he told Paul.

With time, Brady has realized that the most important part of being a parent is to simply let your children experience the world and be prepared when they do need guidance.

“You’ve got to be available and you’ve got to be present. And that’s where the parenting happens: not in the big moments. A lot of times it’s in the small moments,” he said.

Brady previously told “The Pivot” podcast last year how the roast affected his kids, saying, “It’s the hardest part about, like the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and then all of a sudden you realize ‘I wouldn’t do that again’ because of the way that it affected, actually, the people I care about the most in the world.”