REb. I do not know about the gebrokts story…but Reb Yaakov’s personal family minhag was to eat gebrokts as his family does to this day. He had a personal because he once found himself in someone’s house and so as not to eat the pesach food and embarass the host he said he didn’t eat gebrokts and since Reb Yaakov was an ish emes he peronally accepted the chumra. The story with his second rebbetzin concerned Reb yaakovs minhag of not eating milchigs on erev shabbos and she made a milchidegah kiddush on the first day of shavuous which that year was erev shabbos and he realized he never told her about this chumra. He had some bochurim go with him to another room where he was mattir neder so he can partake of the milchigs. I have heard from a rov from Long Island that family members verified he reaccepted this chumra afterwards.
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