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Brett Favre announced his Parkinson’s diagnosis while testifying before Congress on Tuesday, 24 September. The former Green Bay Packers quarterback, 54, made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal in Mississippi. Favre, who does not face criminal charges, has repaid more than $1m in speaking fees funded by a welfare program in the state and was also an investor in a biotech company which says it was developing concussion treatments with ties to the case. ad no idea his home state used Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare funds to pay him over $1 million for “I also lost an investment in a company that I believed was developing a breakthrough concussion drug I thought would help others, and Im sure youll understand why its too late for me because Ive recently been diagnosed with Parkinsons,” Favre told the House Ways and Means Committee.