Gisele Bündchen has addressed speculation for the first time that she had an affair with Tom Brady before the power couple’s divorce, insisting she hasn’t, but wondering if she’s come out. Others claimed that she was doing this because she was a woman.
“That’s a lie,” Bundchen said. New York Times interview About whether she betrayed her ex-husband.
Bündchen reportedly began dating jiu-jitsu trainer Joaquin Valente in June 2023. She and Brady announced their divorce in October 2022.
“I don’t want my life to be a tabloid,” Bundchen said. “I don’t want to open myself up to all that.”
The 43-year-old Brazilian supermodel took aim at those who are spreading rumors about her breakup with seven-time Super Bowl champion Brady.
“This is what happens to many women who find the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are criticized when they are labeled unfaithful,” Bundchen said in an interview. “They have to face their community. They have to face their families. Of course, in my case it just happened to be amplified a little bit.”
She added that regarding couples in general, “no one really knows what’s going to happen between two people. Only the two people in the relationship know.”
Bündchen and Valente were spotted Have dinner together in November 2022weeks after she and Brady revealed their divorce.
Brady reportedly believes Bündchen and Valente had an affair with each other before their divorce.
“If she wants people to think she’s only been dating Joaquin since June, that’s fine, but they’ve been together a lot longer and aren’t taking it easy. Tom has accepted it,” a source claimed to the Daily Mail last month.
Bundchen confirmed to the Times that she is in a relationship, but did not mention Valente by name.
“It’s the first time I’m meeting someone who was my friend for the first time,” she said. “It’s very different. It’s very honest and very transparent.”
