Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC. Photo / Getty Images
Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has revealed he has Parkinson’s disease.
Favre, 54, a Super Bowl winner with the Packers in 1997 and inducted into the NFL’s Hall of Fame in 2016, told a Congressional hearing in an ongoing welfare fraud case that he was recently diagnosed with the illness.
Mississippi Department of Human Services named Favre in a civil lawsuit last year for the the misuse of federal welfare funds.
Favre, who has denied any wrongdoing and has not been criminally charged, is being pursued for $US727,000 ($1.06m) in interest from the Mississippi state auditor.
He told the hearing that he had been a major investor in a now defunct drug company.
