Former Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has revealed he has Parkinson’s illness.
Favre, 54, a Tremendous Bowl winner with the Packers in 1997 and inducted into the NFL’s Corridor of Fame in 2016, informed a Congressional listening to in an ongoing welfare fraud case that he was not too long ago recognized with the sickness.
Mississippi Division of Human Companies named Favre in a civil lawsuit final yr for the misuse of federal welfare funds.
Favre, who has denied any wrongdoing and has not been criminally charged, is being pursued for $727,000 (£543,000) in curiosity from the Mississippi state auditor.
He informed the listening to he had been a significant investor in a now defunct drug firm, looking for a remedy to take care of the problem of concussion.
Favre stated: “Sadly, I also lost an investment in a company that I believed was developing a breakthrough concussion drug I thought would help others.
“I am positive you will perceive, whereas it is too late for me as a result of I’ve not too long ago been recognized with Parkinson’s, that is additionally a trigger expensive to my coronary heart.”
Favre spent 16 seasons with the Packers until 2007 when he was traded to the New York Jets and spent his final two seasons with the Minnesota Vikings.
He is the only player to win three successive NFL Most Valuable Player awards, from 1995 to 1997.
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