Tom Brady’s Massage Parlor Cameo In Netflix Series Creates A Brewing Scandal

Living With Yourself, a brand new Netflix show that just premiered yesterday, is turning out to be one of their most talked about shows of the year … but not for the reasons that anyone intended, let alone hoped.

The series stars not one but two versions of Paul Rudd, one of the most popular actors of our generation, but the focus of attention has turned to Tom Brady, of all people. The six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback of the New England Patriots has an exciting cameo in the first episode of the season, one in which he appears outside of a shady massage parlor called the “Top Happy Spa” before disappearing into a limousine. Earlier today, Deadline’s Bruce Haring published a piece that suggested the scene was a parody of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s massage parlor bust earlier this year. Anyone who has watched the scene in question in the context of the episode understands that this is a bad faith interpretation, one whose only purpose is to stir the proverbial shit. Well, mission accomplished, I guess, because the shit has officially been stirred.

Brady was asked to comment about the Kraft connection during a press conference earlier today, and the famously stoic quarterback turned irate.

“That’s not what that was about,” Brady said. “I think that was taken out of context, just like you’re taking it out of context and trying to make it a story for yourself, which has a negative connotation to it, which I don’t appreciate. It was meant to be something different than that. The fact it’s a distraction or you’re bringing it up, is not something I want to be talking about.”

As the mob of NFL reporters, none of whom had appeared to have watched the episode in question, attempted to goad Brady into losing his temper, Brady kept his poise. “I think it’s this type of media atmosphere that you create,” Brady said. “The blame-and-shame media atmosphere that has kind of percolated for a while. I think there is a lot of things that are said that are taken out of context that you choose to make a headline of, as opposed to understand what it’s actually about.”

Brady went on to explain that the scene in question was “shot on a green screen,” not at an actual massage parlor, and was agreed to well before the Kraft scandal unfolded. “It was written four years ago,” he explained. “Again, it’s unfortunate that people would choose to think I would ever do something like that about Mr. Kraft. I think that’s a very bad assessment of my relationship with him. I would never do that.”

As they say, folks, this is why we can’t have nice things.

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