Erin Andrews opens up up about father having heart…
Erin Andrews was emotional as she shared that her dad, Steven, had a heart assault in entrance of their household and was helicoptered to a Montana hospital on Christmas Eve.
During Thursday’s installment of the “Calm Down” podcast, Fox Sports’ top NFL sideline reporter explained that her dad — who is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist — is doing properly after a second hospital stint “the other day” in Tampa, where he lives.
“I didn’t discuss this at the time but over Christmas … it was just hellacious and horrible — but it ended up having a great ending. My dad had a heart attack in Montana with us and it was awful,” Andrews said. “And it was proper in entrance of us. I’m very proud of my sister, my mother, [husband] Jarret and I for springing into loopy city motion [and] getting paramedics. My dad was life-flighted to another hospital.
Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews. AP
“It was a lot and I was at the time just beyond grateful for the care my dad received — from the firefighters and the helicopter to the people in Bozeman hospital who took care of him. So, it’s been a lot for us the last three months.”
Andrews said her dad was just lately hospitalized again after experiencing heart assault symptoms.
Erin Andrews and her father Steve Andrews, who is a prostate cancer survivor, attend the On The Line prostate cancer initiative marketing campaign event at The Millennium Broadway Hotel on Feb. 15, 2011 in New York City. Getty Images
“Our PTSD was tested again when my son FaceTimed my father the other day and he answered from a hospital bed in Tampa,” she said. “My whole physique seized up … Well, good news, my dad didn’t have another heart assault but he had all the symptoms of having one. So, for 4 or 5 days our household was just wrecked, like, oh my God, this poor man can’t catch a break.
“The moral of the story is, thank God my dad is alive, but my dad is alive because of these healthcare workers and I just feel like they are people that don’t get as much credit as they deserve.”
Andrews cried while explaining that she and her sister, Kendra, are going to get checked out ince cardio vascular disease is hereditary.
“This is where I’ll cry my dad takes care of himself so much and he does such a good job. And I feel so bad he need a break cardio vascular disease is so f–king horrible,” Andrews said.
Fox Sports host Charissa Thompson, who is a co-host of the “Calm Down” podcast, added that Andrews wished to share the story about her dad to give a shout out to the healthcare works who helped take care of him.
Thompson also shared that her grandmother died last week.
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