Jenn Sterger’s name may be synonymous with a Jets controversy, but as the newlywed explained in a recent sit-down with USA Today, she simply isn’t the girl who was once at the center of a sexting scandal with one of the NFL’s biggest names.

“I’m not the Brett Favre girl,” the 34-year-old said. “I tell people that every chance I get. Including dumb drunks at a bar. People meet me say, ‘You’re a lot different than I thought you would be.’ I say, ‘What did you expect?'”

After joining the Jets as an in-game host in 2008, Sterger, then 24, was approached by an employee on behalf of Favre, who had allegedly asked for her phone number.

“He started off talking to me about dumb stuff and he really never told me who he was, it was very implied,” Sterger recalled of the texts.

It went from “dumb” to disastrous after Sterger alleges she received a lewd photo. Sterger spoke with a member of the Jets organization and was assured it would be handled. After she changed her phone number, however, the messages didn’t stop.

“I mean to this day I don’t know that it was Brett Favre, but I go off of what I was told and what I was led to believe and the voice I heard on the voicemails,” she said.

Sterger’s anxiousness began to take its toll, and she left the Jets after the 2008 season, later joining the Versus Network’s now-defunct “Daily Line.”

“My parents had no idea what was going on,” Sterger said. “My parents are my best friends, so not being able to tell them — I was nervous what they would think about me.”

Following the 2010 publication of Deadspin’s piece that revealed the alleged lewd photos, the on-air personality wanted to go to the top of the league’s totem pole — Roger Goodell — to clear her name.

“I [told him], ‘I don’t know why this matters because you’re not going to do anything,'” Sterger said. “And he was like, ‘Are you saying I’m not going to do anything because I can do whatever I want?’ And I said, ‘Excuse me, I’m not saying you can’t do anything, I’m saying you won’t. At the end of the day, I’m not worth it to you. Even in retirement, [Favre’s] retirement jerseys are worth more to you than I ever will be. Like there’s no protection in this for me at all.'”

The NFL launched a subsequent investigation, but was unable to find whether Favre was the source of the messages. He was fined $50,000.

Sterger has moved on in recent years, both personally and professionally. Newly married to Cody Decker of the Diamondbacks organization, Sterger refuses to let the past define her, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t come up. As the couple were still getting to know each other, Decker, 31, mentioned he had received “a ton of hate mail,” to which Sterger said it probably wouldn’t compare to what she once received. She then told him to Google her name.

“She eventually sat me down and took me through the whole thing,” Decker said. “I think she was really worried about my reaction to it. She would just say every few minutes, she would say, ‘Listen, if you don’t believe me, I have all of the documentation.’ I said, ‘I don’t need to see any documentation. I believe you.’ I think she went through such a thing where nobody believed her despite all this copious amounts of proof and I think she was just afraid I wouldn’t believe her either. Which of course I did. But it’s something that definitely affects her.”

Decker has his wife’s back, and posted a sincere message to her Tuesday on Instagram.

“I am endlessly proud of the woman I married. Not only is she the most talented person I know, but, her boundless strength and bravery will never cease to amaze me. I am proud to even know her, let alone share my life with her. I love you, Mrs Decker,” he wrote.