According to a new biography, Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness, written by author Lars Anderson, former NFL quarterback Tom Brady took a last-ditch trip to the Bahamas in 2022 in an effort to save his marriage to supermodel Gisele Bundchen. Brady, now 49, and Bundchen, 46, were married from 2009 to 2022 and have two children together. Brady also has a son with his former partner, Bridget Moynahan. The biography reveals new details about Brady’s actions in the months before he filed for divorce from Bundchen. Brady was reportedly excused from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ training camp in 2022 to meet with Bundchen at a private resort in the Bahamas. Brady had joined the Buccaneers in 2020 after spending nearly two decades with the New England Patriots. When he informed Buccaneers coach Clyde Christensen that he needed to take care of personal matters, the team was left uncertain about his return. An assistant coach recalled that “Tom didn’t know what the heck was going on,” and that “we didn’t know if he was ever coming back.” When he returned, Christensen described Brady as an “empty shell,” noting that he had “no joy. Everything was hard work.” Brady and Bundchen’s marriage reportedly became strained over the years as Brady continued to focus on his NFL career. According to the biography, Bundchen asked Brady to retire after he led the Patriots to a Super Bowl victory in 2017, but Brady said he was “having too much fun right now.” The following year, after the Patriots lost the Super Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles, Bundchen again asked Brady to retire, writing him a letter. Anderson wrote in an excerpt obtained by the Daily Mail that “She explained that their marriage wasn’t working,” and that “She needed more of him, more of his time, more of his attention, more of his heart.” According to the book, Bundchen ended the marriage after consulting astrology charts. A source close to Brady told Anderson that “Gisele, who is really into astrology, basically looked into the stars and told Tom, ‘We’re not compatible.’” In October 2022, Brady announced the end of his marriage through an Instagram post, stating that he and Bundchen “finalized our divorce from one another after 13 years of marriage” and that they had done so “amicably and with gratitude.” He added that their children would remain “the centre of our world.” Bundchen has since remarried and had a son with her jujitsu instructor, Joaquim Valente. Brady has been linked to model Irina Shayk and social media personality Alix Earle.