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Agassi: 'I shouldn't have married Shields'


Last Update: 11/09 2:46 pm
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File photo, dated April 11, 1999, of Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields at the opening of the All Star Cafe in New York. (Dianna Free, Getty Images)
File photo, dated April 11, 1999, of Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields at the opening of the All Star Cafe in New York. (Dianna Free, Getty Images)

Tennis ace Andre Agassi has opened up about his failed marriage to actress/model Brooke Shields a decade after their divorce - insisting the pair should never have wed.

Agassi confesses they were a terrible match, but blames himself for the ill-fated union - which ended in divorce in 1999 - claiming he clung to Shields in a desperate bid to find happiness during an emotional meltdown.

He explains, "(I was) 27-years-old, ranked 141 in the world and in a marriage that I shouldn't be (sic) in... I didn't want to be playing tennis either so my life was filled with things I didn't want, things I didn't choose. Part of it was an inability to find a place for anything really."

Agassi married fellow tennis champion Steffi Graf in October 2001. They share an eight-year-old son, Jaden Gil, and a six-year-old daughter, Jaz Elle.

The revelations feature in Agassi's new memoir Open, in which he also admits to taking crystal methamphetamines and deliberately throwing tennis matches.

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