NFL Reporter Erin Andrews Breakdowns Recalling Being Stalked & Nude Video Leak

Erin Andrews is thinking back on a terrifying incident in which she was humiliated in public after having her privacy infringed.

NFL Reporter Erin Andrews Breakdowns Recalling Being Stalked & Nude Video Leak

The Fox Sports anchor will appear on a Hoda Kotb podcast episode titled “Making Space” on Wednesday. However, the “Today” show leaked some excerpts from her upcoming interview, in which Andrews remembers her feelings following the emergence of a video of herself in the nude.

Speaking to Kotb about the unjust reaction from the public, Andrews said, “People thought it was a scandal, and I’m the square from high school.”

The 45-year-old sports writer discovered she had been caught on camera in a hotel room in 2008 while undressing. When a male friend contacted and claimed to have proof and to have personally viewed the film, she didn’t trust him at first.

She continued: “I knew the second I got the phone call from my friend at ‘Sports Illustrated’ that he said, ‘There’s this video,’ and I said, ‘No, there’s not. I don’t do that. I’m single. I don’t have that going on in my life.’ He’s like, ‘Erin, it’s you.’”

After seeing the video, Andrews phoned her parents right away.

The spying When a hotel clerk confirmed she would be staying there on a particular day, Tom asked to be put in the room adjacent to hers. subsequently, in 2009, the man installed a peephole so he could film her as she was changing. He subsequently posted the video online.

Many people thought that Andrews had faked the tape and leaked it when the video first came out.

Andrews also remembered her automatic response, which was to call her parents in order to get emotional support, when she first saw the video.

“My dad says he thought I had been in a car accident because I was just screaming,” Andrews said. “And I feel so bad. My parents were incredible. I was, God, in my 30s when that happened, and I resorted to acting like a 15-year-old because, in terms of not wanting to deal, my parents really, they were on the forefront.”

In 2008, Andrews’ stalker, Michael David Barrett, repeatedly recorded the actress in her hotel room in Nashville while she was nude through a peephole. He also recorded Andrews at a Columbus, Ohio hotel.

Later on, Barrett acknowledged he changed the peepholes during a civil trial. He served 2.5 years in prison for interstate stalking and was released in 2012.

Later, in 2016, Andrews prevailed in a $55 million lawsuit against Barrett and the businesses in charge of running the Nashville Marriott hotel.

 

 

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