Colin Kaepernick’s Wife Claims He Found ‘Joy and Peace’ After Losing $150 Million

Colin Kaepernick‘s NFL career came to an end and he lost and more than $150 million after taking a stand, but his wife says he has still managed to find joy along the way.

Kaepernick’s wife, Nessa Diab, reflected on the personal and financial toll of his decision to kneel during the national anthem to protest police violence in a post shared via X on Wednesday, September 30.

“In the 10 years since Colin @kaepernick7 began his peaceful protest, the personal sacrifice has been enormous,” Diab, 45, wrote on social media. “Because of the stance he took, he lost his NFL career, more than $150 million, and dealt with betrayal along the way.”

“After everything it has cost him, I wanted to know how he’s still been able to find joy and peace,” she added.

Kaepernick, 38, recently opened up about the price of his protest to the San Francisco Standard. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback played his final NFL game on January 1, 2017, and has not returned to the league since.

“It was costly. It cost me my football career that was 20-plus years in the making, something I loved dearly,” he said, per the outlet. “And it cost me financially — $150-plus million, which is not a light load there.”

He has kept training for a possible comeback, noting that over the last 10 years, “we have consistently reached out to teams, over and over again.”

Through it all, Diab, 45, has stayed by his side. Kaepernick said she “never flinched” when his protest changed the course of his career, the outlet reported.

“There was never a question of, ‘Am I going to stay in the relationship, am I going to be supportive? Are we going to continue this work? How long does this go on?'” he said, per the report. “Those were never questions.”

And he has no regrets.

“I am often asked, ‘Would you do it again?'” he said, per the report. “And the answer is yes.”

As First for Sports previously reported, Kaepernick recently admitted he was “disappointed” more NFL players did not join him in kneeling and called their response a “missed opportunity” during an episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour. He has also made clear his feelings about “The Star-Spangled Banner” have not changed, calling the national anthem a “bad song” during a September appearance on The Adam Friedland Show.