Tom Brady Still Regrets Netflix Roast Hurting His Kids: “Felt Like A Stake Through The Heart”

A year later, Tom Brady is still trying to live down his roast and its adverse effect on his family.

Reflecting on Netflix‘s The Greatest Roast of All Time, the 7x Super Bowl champ said he doesn’t want to see his “kids hurt” the way they did after hearing some of the jokes on the live-streamed event.

“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. That moment, I’ll never forget. And then I’ll never forget when I talked to my kids the next day,” he said on the Impaulsive podcast. “I felt like a stake through the heart.”

Brady noted that he was fine with the jokes that took a shot at him, but he wasn’t as prepared for those at the expense of ex-wife Gisele Bündchen and their children.

“They’re protective of their mom, their dad, of everybody,” explained Brady. “You don’t mind yourself hurting, you don’t want to see your parents hurt, you don’t want to see your kids hurt.”

Brady added, “There’s some things as a parent you f— up and you don’t realize until after. They were just like, ‘Why did you do that?’”

The NFL on Fox commentator previously expressed similar regrets over the roast last July, shortly after it racked up 1.6 billion minutes viewed in a week on Netflix.

Nikki Glaser, whose savage roast of Brady launched her career to new heights, previously defended her jokes to Deadline after the NFL retiree was paid a reported $25 million. “He got paid to sit there and take that kind of abuse, and he also knew what he was signing up for,” she said in January.

“I feel maybe he didn’t consider the backlash from his family and how it would affect them, and I do understand that,” the comedian previously acknowledged on the Today show last March, adding: “But there’s a part of me that thinks that Tom Brady, especially given his career and how much people love him, nobody has ever said a bad thing to him in the past 30 years. So he didn’t know that anyone was capable of going there.”

Meanwhile, Kevin Hart said he has no regrets after going in on Brady. “What it did for comedy and our climate of sensitivity, I think it was necessary and valuable,” he said last July.

The special also featured comedians Jeff Ross, Bert Kreischer, Sam Jay and Tom Segura, as well as guests like Kim Kardashian, Ben Affleck, Will Ferrell, Rob Gronkowski, Peyton Manning and Bill Belichick.