![]() ![]() ![]() Two years later, in 1999, Shields and Agassi divorced - and one of the primary reasons, Shields says, was the Olympian’s substance abuse issues. However, after saying "I do" four years later, their marriage quickly deteriorated. The couple met in 1993 and shared similar experiences with childhood fame and troubling parental relationships. Clearly, you know, he wasn't familiar with the acting world and he got threatened or whatever the justification I tried to have, but it was so self-inflicted." I immediately went into that fixer mode and, you know. She continues, "And you know, the thought process was, 'One day I want our kids to see their father's, you know, achievements.'. I mean, I spent the next couple years trying to get those trophies all replicated." Agassi first revealed his meth addiction in a bombshell memoir of his own Open revealing his descent into drug use, as well as his take on the end of their two-year marriage. "And, you know, the irony of it too is that the extreme sort of behaviors were not dissimilar to what it was like living with an alcoholic, you know, and loving an alcoholic, you know, that sort of night and day that, you know, Jekyll Hyde, all that kind of stuff. ![]() It really had just begun too," Shields says. Which is like, I think says a lot about how that relationship was going to end." "Goes home and is so angry, smashes his own trophies, which is such like unhinged behavior to destroy something of his own when he's so angry at you. "He sees you with Joey Tribbiani, not even a real person," Cunningham says. ![]()
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