Brett Favre Netflix Documentary reveals scandals and heir | Trend news

Netflix shows Brett Favre's rise and fall in a new documentary “Untold: The Fall of Favre”, which follows the NFL success of the Hall of Fame Quarterback and the following scandals.

The documentary examines the famous NFL career from Favre, but also deals with the Sexting allegations that have appeared during his time with the New York Jets and its alleged participation in a 94 million dollar fraud program.

Director Rebecca Gitlitz wanted to investigate whether people in power positions believe that they are above the law after seeing how the story was repeated with Favre. The documentary contains interviews with Ron Wolf, the Packers GM, who exchanged against Favre in 1992, and Peter King, a retired Sports Illustrated writer, who was close to Favre during his career. In the film in particular, Favre himself, who refused to participate and told the director that he could make his documentary if he wanted to, as the Guardian emphasizes. The film also contains a appearance by Michael Vick, which highlights the difference in the reaction of America on its respective scandals.

USA TODAY notes that the documentary, which was premiered on Tuesday on Netflix, fulfilled its purpose through good storytelling of the Talking heads that appeared in the film, mainly sports journalists who reported favre during his 20 NFL season. While the documentary is only an hour, which is surprising given the complexity of the topic, he tries to tell a balanced story. According to the USA Today, the first 12 minutes concentrated on Favre's career before introducing Jenn Sterger, who claimed that Favre had sent her unwanted explicit pictures when both worked for the New York Jets. “Brett Favre ultimately destroyed my life,” says Sterger in the film, unveiling that she never met Favre, who was finished by the NFL with a fine of 50,000 US dollars because she had not worked with her investigation.

The documentary also covers the Mississippi welfare scandal, in which Favre wanted to build a new arena in Southern Mississippi in which his daughter played volleyball. As US TODAY emphasizes, one of the most interesting parts of the film shows producer AJ Perez Audio recordings after threatening the representatives of the scandal reporting by the representatives of Favre. Favre used the dishes to try to eliminate his name and sued the media personalities Shannon Sharpe and Pat McAfee for defamation as well as the state auditor from Mississippi and two journalists, including the Pulitzer award winner Anna Wolfe.

The Clarion Ledger reports that director Rebecca Gitlitz spent two to three years to make the film and said she was attracted to the story because he had “a lot of nuance” and “many things to unpack”. Gitlitz, a two-time director who previously made films about controversial personalities such as Rudy Giuliani, told Clarion-Ledger that she wanted people to understand “the whole picture” before drawing their own conclusions. The film examines Favre's fame in Mississippi, which was comparable to athletes such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, and at the same time examined his participation in questionable sports drug companies and the 1 million US dollar for the speech fees he paid but never delivered but never delivered.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/20/brett-favre-netflix-documentary

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/20/brett-favre-fall-fall-of-favre-netflix-review/837497007/

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2025/19/director-lof