Paul Rudd felt 'bad' about reaction to Brady's cameo in Netflix series

Tom Brady raised eyebrows with his cameo in the new Netflix series, "Living With Yourself," after many drew a connection between his spa parlor scene and the solicitation charges filed against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft earlier this year.

Brady told reporters last week the plot was written years ago, and the show's star, Paul Rudd, corroborated that claim during a Wednesday appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."

"Even back when he had four rings or maybe even three, the idea that we would have a clone, and it's the best version of ourselves, that they just do everything right, that they're great - Tom Brady is the epitome of that," Rudd said, according to Kevin Slane of Boston.com. "We sent him these scripts like a year-and-a-half ago or something. And I was so touched. He got the joke of making fun of himself and his perfection, and he was like, 'Yeah.'"

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Rudd also described the sympathy he felt after seeing the reactions to Brady's cameo.

"I had a feeling that I have never ever had in my life, which was, 'Oh my God, I feel bad for Tom Brady,'" Rudd said. "This guy was throwing us a bone, he was doing us a favor, and he was kind of making fun of himself and his perfection. And then all of the sudden the Boston media..."

"Living With Yourself" creator Timothy Greenberg told Refinery29's Shannon Carlin showrunners were convinced Brady would back out of the cameo after news of Kraft's legal issues broke, but the Patriots quarterback ended up going through with it.

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