Former ESPN college football reporter Erin Andrews took the stand in her peeping Tom case and she tearfully testified against Stalker Michael David Barrett. The defendant had secretly recorded Andrews undressing at a Nashville hotel's peephole in 2008 and the video was posted all over the Internet in 2009. The sportscaster is suing Barrett and the Nashville Marriott hotel in a $75 million civil lawsuit.
The 37-year-old recalled that her friend told her that there was a video of her naked online, “There’s naked video of you on the internet’ and I said ‘no there’s not, I don’t do that. What are you talking about?” Andrews shared. “I grabbed my laptop and flipped it open. I saw it for like two seconds and I shut it down and I was like ‘oh my God I’ve got to call you back’ and I called my parents.”
Barrett requested a room next to Andrews which has now been realized that as his quarters for staging the acts. He eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stalking.
"I'm so angry. This could have been stopped," Andrews said. "No one ever called me or told me when I checked in that he asked to be put next to me."
To add insult to injury, Erin was claimed by other outlets to have set this scandal for publicity. Fighting unsuccessfully to hold back tears she said, “Probably for about three months, everyone thought it was a publicity stunt. The New York Post said ‘ESPN scandal,’ Fox News, CBS, everybody put up that I was doing to for publicity and that ripped me apart.”
Erin Andrews couldn't hold back the tears while testifying in her Peeping Tom case: https://t.co/uxUqwR5vpM pic.twitter.com/4Cr1bafnHl
— E! Online (@eonline) March 1, 2016
