“Brett Favre ultimately destroyed my life”: Jenn Sterger finally exposes NFL cover-up in new Netflix documentary

The NFL’s long-buried Brett Favre sexting scandal is about to resurface—this time with Jenn Sterger finally reclaiming her voice. The former New York Jets gameday host is front and center in the upcoming Netflix documentary Untold: The Fall of Favre, where she breaks her silence on how the scandal impacted her life, career, and mental health nearly 15 years after it unfolded.

In a powerful trailer for the docuseries, Jenn Sterger does not hold back. “Brett Favre ultimately destroyed my life,” she says. Her statement sets the tone for a deeper, more personal exploration of the 2010 controversy that the NFL never fully addressed—one that painted her as the problem and let Favre, a Hall-of-Famer, skate by with minimal consequences.
The documentary unearths details from Sterger’s time as the Jets’ in-stadium host during the 2008 season, when Favre allegedly began sending her inappropriate voicemails and unsolicited sexual photos. She recalls being approached with the offer to give Favre her number—an offer she says she declined repeatedly.

“I started getting text messages, and then I started getting voicemails when I was like, ‘Oh, I’m in serious trouble here,’” she says.
Despite Sterger providing months of evidence to league officials—including voicemails and text messages—the NFL chose not to punish Favre for misconduct. Instead, he was fined $50,000 for not cooperating with the investigation. He admitted to sending the voicemails, but denied sending the explicit images.
While Favre maintained his NFL icon status, Sterger faced brutal victim-blaming in the media and online. She was labeled, shamed, and pushed out of professional opportunities, battling the aftermath while the man at the center of it all continued his career largely untouched.

Sterger’s story is just one part of the documentary. The Fall of Favre will also examine the former quarterback’s alleged involvement in the Mississippi welfare funds scandal—a case that has brought renewed attention to his off-field conduct.
The series is not just about a scandal—it’s about accountability, media bias, and the cost of staying silent. “People don’t want most of that stuff to come out,” one interviewee says in the trailer. “People want their heroes.”
But with this documentary, Jenn Sterger is rewriting the narrative—on her terms.
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