Dallas Cowboys legend Troy Aikman's second marriage ended last year.
Aikman married Catherine “Capa” Mooty in 2017 and the couple's divorce was finalized in July 2023. Despite having high-profile television work over the past two decades, the 57-year-old presenter has been able to maintain a private life.
But the notoriously private “Monday Night Football” commentator recently shared some of the internal struggles he's dealt with since his marriage to Mooty broke down.
Aikman said the realization that the union was not going to succeed was his lowest point.
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Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman on the field before a game on Nov. 6, 2023, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“It was a failure. That was my lowest point,” the Cowboys Hall of Famer told The Athletic.
Aikman proposed to Mooty while the couple was vacationing at Lake Como in Italy. Aikman and Mooty had been dating for about a year before the engagement, People magazine reported.
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The Pro Football Hall of Famer said he always wanted to avoid being “happy.”
“For me, contentment was always a four-letter word. I never wanted to be content,” Aikman said. “I didn't want to be around someone who was content. That's not a place I could get to.”
Announcer Troy Aikman on the field before a game between the Chicago Bears and the New Orleans Saints at Soldier Field on October 20, 2019, in Chicago. (David Banks/Getty Images)
But Aikman was able to hide the “internal turmoil” he faced, The Athletic noted.
“The success everyone saw masked an inner turmoil no one knew about,” the publication reported. “Aikman struggled with that for decades, fighting his own happiness, chasing a goal whose existence he's not even sure of.”
Former NFL quarterback and television commentator Troy Aikman before a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cincinnati Bengals on December 4, 2023, at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. (David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Aikman has two daughters with his first wife, former Cowboys publicist Rhonda Worthey. Aikman and Worthey's decade-long marriage ended in 2011.
Mooty has two children from a previous relationship and his Instagram profile still includes the surname Aikman.
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Aikman has worked alongside Joe Buck since 2002, initially working in a three-person booth with analyst Cris Collinsworth. Aikman and Buck became a duo three years later. Both broadcasters signed with ESPN in 2022 and cover “Monday Night Football.”
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