Erin Andrews Says ESPN Made Her Give TV Interview About Peephole Stalker

During testimony in her civil trial against the stalker and the hotel where the videotaping occurred, current Fox reporter Erin Andrews claimed ESPN wouldn’t allow her to return to work until she did a national TV interview about the incident. Not only did the network believe it was a publicity stunt, they also tried to make her do the interview with their corporate partner, “Good Morning America.” She wound up choosing Oprah Winfrey because of her own history of sexual abuse, but even then it wasn’t easy:

“And I was just freaking out, and I just said ‘I don’t want to do this, I don’t want to do this. I just want to go back to college football. I don’t want to talk about what happened to me, why can’t I just be normal? Like, why can’t I go back?'”

(watch the video of her breakdown on the stand here)

That’ll probably make things awkward in Bristol for a while.

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