Brees and his wife Brittany purchased and renovated a home in Uptown New Orleans, and he also involved himself heavily in charities engaged in Hurricane Katrina recovery. Drew and Brittany’s Brees Dream Foundation announced a partnership in 2007 with international children’s charity Operation Kids, to rebuild and restore academic and athletic facilities, parks and playgrounds, after-school programs, mentoring programs for the intellectually disabled, neighborhood revitalization projects and child care facilities in New Orleans. On February 18, 2007, Brees was honored by the Krewe of Bacchus (a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade club) as the 2007 Bacchus Grand Marshal. This was only the second time in the Krewe's 39 year history that they named a Grand Marshal.
Brees regularly wears contact lenses while playing and during his regular life; this fact was cited during the first game of the Saints' 2007 regular season against the Indianapolis Colts in which Brees had one of them knocked out during a play. He had to return to the sidelines to replace it.
Drew Brees is allergic to dairy, wheat, gluten, and eggs
Brees was born with a birthmark, a mole on his right cheek. When Brees was 3, his parents considered having the birthmark removed, but doctors said that there was no medical reason to remove it.
Brees visited the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on a USO tour in late June 2009. Following his return he went on record concerning the conditions of captives held in extrajudicial detention there. Brees was quoted as saying that Guantanamo captives are being treated ten times better than convicts in U.S. prisons.
Brees' mother, Mina Hayes (August 29, 1949 - August 7, 2009) died in 2009, aged 59, from undisclosed causes. He was briefly excused from training camp for a "family matter". In 2006, Brees had described their relationship as "nonexistent" ever since he refused to hire her as his agent when he entered the NFL. After her death, Brees stated that this quote was three years old and that his relationship with his mother had been improving.
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