Brandi Favre

2010 was not a great year for the Favre family.

2011 isn't starting off much better.

Brandi Favre, 34-year-old sister of disgraced Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, was arrested Wednesday in a meth bust, and released on bond today.



From ABC News:

After his sister's arrest on methamphetamine-related charges, Brett Favre may well be thinking, "With family like this, who needs enemies?"

After all, it's not Brandi Favre's first brush with the law, nor is she the only family member to get into trouble. What's more, the timing of his sister's arrest couldn't be worse. Favre, the veteran quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, was recently slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit by two female massage therapists.

"Trouble never seems to be far away," Favre told Playboy in 1997, a year after the NFL put him on probation for addiction to the painkiller Vicodin and his older brother Scott was sent to prison for a probation violation on a DUI charge.

...Brandi, 34, the youngest of the four Favre children and the only girl, was among five people arrested in a raid Wednesday at a condo in Diamondhead, Miss. She was charged with possession of two or more ingredients to manufacture methamphetamine, and generating hazardous material.

Hancock County Sheriff's Maj. Matt Karl, director of narcotics, told ABCNews.com that Brandi was "at the location" at the time of the raid, in which police found nine grams of methamphetamine and another 10 grams of the drug cooking in the bathtub.

Brandi was released after posting a $40,000 bond Thursday.

"That was our goal today," her lawyer Chad Favre (no relation), told ABCNews.com. "As far as the facts go, we still have an opportunity to sort these things out."

Both counts are felonies. If convicted, Brandi faces fines up to $1 million in fines and 30 years in prison for each count.

Although ABC claims Chad Favre is no relation to the famous family, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, attorney Chad Favre is a distant relative.

Chad Favre said he is a distant cousin and close friend of Brandi Favre.

Brett Favre told Playboy in 1997, "Trouble never seems to be far away."

True, but let's remember that much of the "trouble" experienced by the Favre family is completely of their own making.

Tragedy hits every family. It's unavoidable. There will be disaster and illness and death. However, there doesn't have to be "trouble." Personal failings brought that to the family.

Brandi Favre chose her fate, just like big brother Brett.