former Monday Night Football reporter Lisa Guerrero is opening up on the traumatic expertise of struggling a miscarriage on dwell TV years in the past.
In 2021, Guerrero instructed Andrew Marchand of the New York Post that she handled suicidal ideas for the humiliation she felt after being ridiculed during her one season as a Monday Night Football sideline reporter. Yet Guerrero lately revealed her Monday Night Football tenure was much more of a nightmare than anybody realized.
Guerrero spoke to People about her upcoming memoir Warrior, and mentioned the choice to maintain her traumatic on-air expertise personal for nearly 20 years.
“People who knew what was happening with [my boss] Freddie (Gaudelli) and who learn how I used to be being handled within the media already checked out me with such pity,” Guerrero instructed People. “I used to be a shell of myself. And I felt such disgrace and embarrassment that the very last thing I used to be going to say is, ‘Oh, and by the way in which, I simply had a miscarriage.’ Most of my finest pals will find out about it by studying the e-book.”
People printed an excerpt from Guerrero’s memoir during which she gives a detailed recount of struggling a being pregnant loss whereas on the sideline for a Monday Night Football broadcast on ABC in 2003.
“I pushed by way of and did my studies,” Guerrero mentioned. “When I felt a dampness between my legs, I believed, ‘Oh, I acquired my interval.’ And then I remembered I used to be pregnant. I used to be having a miscarriage! I might really feel blood leaking. The officers’ lavatory was within the tunnel behind me. ‘I’m going to the toilet,’ I instructed my assistant, whose job was to race across the subject with me. He checked out me as if I have been insane. ‘They’re about to throw to you.'”
According to Guerrero, her boss, former Monday Night Football govt Fred Gaudelli who was unaware of the medical emergency, would later criticize her for dangerous posture that night time. Guadelli, now with NBC, spent 33 seasons as an govt producer for NFL broadcasts. Earlier this month, it was introduced that he was stepping apart after the Wild Card weekend.
“I delivered my dwell report. I used to be dizzy and nauseated however reminded myself to face up straight,” Guerrero remembered. “Our Wednesday telephone calls, Freddie would ream me out for dangerous posture. The ache was excruciating. I heard myself mispronounce a participant’s identify and knew I’d hear about it later. As quickly as I completed, I raced off to interview a coach. Then I headed to the toilet. As I sat on the bathroom, I could not consider the blood pouring out of me. It had soaked by way of my pants. I shoved a bunch of paper towels in my underwear.”
Guerrero writes that she saved the miscarriage a secret that night time, including that it “by no means occurred” to her to inform anybody or go to a hospital. Her foremost concern was overlaying the blood on her garments together with her lengthy winter coat.
“When the sport ended, I used to be presupposed to go to the manufacturing truck to speak to Freddie,” Guerrero continued. “Instead, I headed to the airplane. In the toilet [on board], I modified garments, and dumped my underwear and pants within the rubbish can. I regarded into the mirror and did not acknowledge the pale, gaunt, scared, and so very drained lady who stared again at me.”
Guerrero was fired after Monday Night Football after her one and solely season in 2003. Now a longtime investigative correspondent for Inside EditionGuerrero instructed People that she does not blame one individual for her being pregnant loss that 12 months, including that it “was a fruits of your entire season of negativity and cruelty.”
[People]