More Excerpts from Andre Agassi Book On His Marriage To Brooke Shields and His Hairpiece

We have all heard by now the bombshell from Andre Agassi’s  upcoming autobiography, that he admits to using crystal meth in 1997 (for about a year) and failed a drug test — a result he says was thrown out after he lied by saying he “unwittingly” took the substance.

New excerpts published Friday though perhaps less dramatic give more revealing insights into Agassi’s very interesting personal life. Agassi explains how he and Brooke Shields begin dating shortly after Christmas 1993 and connected by sharing their common experience dealing with pushy parents. One of the great ironies was how Shields once put a photo of Steffi Graf, now married to Agassi, on the fridge for motivation to get in better shape before their wedding.

“It’s a photo of the perfect woman, she says” Agassi wrote. “The perfect woman with the perfect legs — the legs Brooke wants.”

Andre had his moments in the relationship too. He tells of storming off the set of “Friends,” after becoming jealous when Shields had to lick actor Matt LeBlanc’s hand.

“Have some more hand. I’m out of here,” wrote Agassi, who said he consulted Shields on the book.

“A lot of our recollections were the same, but not the interpretations,” Agassi told People magazine (via Huffington Post). “I tried to turn a harder lens on myself than on anyone else.”

Another embarrassing situation Agassi admits to was his battle with losing his hair.  Agassi’s spiked-mullet weave was coming off his head before his final big match in the 1990 French Open.

He said: “Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole.

“I asked myself: you want to wear a toupee? On the tennis court? I answered myself; what else could I do?”

He wore the wig for the French Open in 1990, the first time he had reached a Grand Slam final.

“Then a fiasco happened,” he said. “The evening before the match I stood under the shower and felt my wig suddenly fall apart.

“Probably I used the wrong hair rinse. I panicked and called my brother Philly into the room.

The tennis star’s brother was sent running around Paris to find bobby pins to make a hasty repair.

“Of course I could play without my hairpiece. But after months of derision, criticism, mockery, I’m too self-conscious,” he wrote. “Image Is Everything? What would they say if they knew? Win or lose, they wouldn’t talk about my game. They’d only talk about my hair. I can close my eyes and almost hear it. And I know I can’t take it.”