Football player Megan Rapinoe's brother died last year because of alcohol addiction. The footballer revealed Michael’s “sad” match now in her podcast “A Touch More”.
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15/06/2026
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Megan Rapinoe revealed that his older brother, Michael, died last year because of his addiction to alcohol.
The 40-year-old American football star recalled this “sad” match in her podcast “A Touch More” while talking to 46-year-old guest Abby Wambach on Thursday, June 11.
“I came home last year after my older brother, Michael, died,” Megan Rapinoe said. “He fought a long battle against alcoholism. It was sad,” added former U.S. female captain.
Abby Wambach recalled that her older brother, Peter G. Wambach Jr., also died in December 2023 at the age of 51 due to complications of a heart attack.
People remember Megan Rapinoe never mentioned her brother's death in public before, but she had already approached the drug addiction of her other brother, Brian.
In the book she wrote and released in 2020, “One Life”, the footballer recalled the moment when her parents told her and her brothers that Brian had been arrested for possession of methamphetamine. In the same work he also reported that his brother was arrested at the age of 18 for stealing a car before spending the next two decades in prison and being released.
“ For some reason, the drugs took over Brian. He didn’t need prison, he needed rehabilitation,” People said.