Erin Andrews gives emotional testimony in peeping Tom lawsuit

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Erin Andrews, her mother, and the man convicted of secretly recording her naked in a Nashville Marriott hotel room testified Monday in her on-going trial as she sues for damages in the case.

Andrews was recorded through a peephole in her hotel room in 2008. Michael Barrett was arrested in 2009, a few months after the video was posted online, and ultimately found guilty, serving two years in prison for the crime.

The sportscaster is now suing for $75 million in damages, naming both Barrett and the Nashville Marriott in the suit.

Erin Andrews details finding out about peeping Tom video

Erin Andrews took the stand in her own trial Monday, beginning by going through her childhood, love of sports and what ultimately led her to pursue a career as a sportscaster.

She later became emotional when she told the courtroom people initially thought it was a publicity stunt, that she had gotten naked for “more fans” and attention.

Andrews also cried when she testified no one told her Barrett asked to be put in the hotel room next to hers.

“Why didn’t they even call me to tell me? Why didn’t they ask?” she said of the Marriott.

“I was so angry. This could’ve been stopped. The Nashville Marriott could’ve just called me,” she explained. “And I’m just so angry. I’m so mad.”

Andrews also relayed the moment she found out the video was online. A friend reportedly called her to let her know.

“I was just screaming that I was naked all over the Internet,” Andrews said, detailing a growing sense of paranoia over the next few weeks, saying she was constantly afraid someone was watching her or trying to get into her hotel rooms.

Andrews said she called her father and was screaming and crying while telling him what happened, saying she of the video that didn’t know where she was or what exactly she was looking at.

She flew to Los Angeles with her father to meet with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She had to watch the tape to possibly help recognize where it was shot.

“I looked at my dad and I said, ‘I don’t want to watch it,’ and my dad was like, ‘You’re going to have to watch it and we have to figure it out,’” Andrews recalled.

She told her father that if she watched it, she was “going to puke,” and he reportedly replied, ‘Go, because you have to.’”

“So I went and I threw up, and then I came in and then we, like, put my hand over my body because it was so embarrassing the FBI had to watch it in front of me,” Andrews explained through tears.

She said she eventually found out where the video was taken because her stylist noticed the pants she was holding in the video, saying they were ones she wore while working in Nashville.

The sportscaster also explained how the video continues to affect her daily life. She said at sports events men yell her name and say they’ve seen her naked, adding that incidents like that happen every single time she’s covering a game.

Andrews also said when she comes to town to cover an event, “whether they mean to or not, the Nashville Marriott scandal” is always mentioned alongside her name.

“It’s always there. It’s always on my back,” she explained. “I get better, and then I get right back. That’s how it is every single day.”

Andrews also told the courtroom she and her team of lawyers effortlessly tried to get the video offline. But because it went so viral, the video is still there.”

“I’ve been told it’s going to be online until the day I die,” she explained.