‘Monday Night Football’ Alum Had Miscarriage On Live TV

NFL gamers generally threat critical harm on the taking part in subject ― and so did former sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero.

The present “Inside Version” investigative journalist revealed in her new memoir, “Warrior,” that she as soon as skilled a miscarriage whereas protecting a recreation on stay TV, in accordance with Individuals.

Again in 2003, Guerrero labored the sidelines on “Monday Night time Soccer” for one season. It was a anxious time, she wrote, partially as a result of she needed to take care of what she calls an “ugly misogyny operating rampant by sports activities radio airwaves — and I used to be their excellent goal.”

Guerrero stated she was attacked for her garments, her lengthy hair and even for carrying pink nail polish. Including to the problem, she found the explanation she hadn’t had a interval since beginning the “MNF” job wasn’t due to stress — she was pregnant.

Guerrero stated that she and her then-husband, Scott Erickson, had agreed years earlier than they didn’t need youngsters, however admits “fantasizing” about what their little one would possibly seem like.

However one evening whereas working a recreation, she stated “felt a dampness” between her legs. At first, she thought she had simply gotten her interval earlier than remembering she was pregnant.

“I used to be having a miscarriage! I may really feel blood leaking,” she wrote within the e-book.

Guerrero informed her assistant she was going to the toilet and he informed her, “They’re about to throw to you.” After she delivered the stay report, she was dizzy and nauseated “however reminded myself to face up straight.” The ache was excruciating, she stated.

“I heard myself mispronounce a participant’s identify and knew I’d hear about it later,” Guerrero stated. “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 couldn’t consider the blood pouring out of me. It had soaked by my pants. I shoved a bunch of paper towels in my underwear.”

Guerrero admitted that it by no means occurred to her to inform somebody she was having a medical emergency or that she ought to have gone to a hospital as a substitute of doing the sport.

“The one thought that crossed my thoughts was that I may get by the remainder of the sport so long as I buttoned up my lengthy winter coat. That means, nobody would see the blood,” she stated.

After the sport, Guerrero determined not to return to the manufacturing truck to speak to producers.

“As an alternative, I headed to the aircraft. Within the rest room [on board], I modified garments, and dumped my underwear and pants within the rubbish can,” she stated. “I appeared into the mirror and didn’t acknowledge the pale, gaunt, scared, and so very drained girl who stared again at me.”

Guerrero confronted a number of flak when she started at “Monday Night time Soccer,” with commentator Keith Olbermann suggesting on the time that announcers John Madden and Al Michaels resign in protest of her hiring.

“I used to be terrified,” Guerrero informed the New York Submit in 2021. “Individuals at house in all probability checked out it as, ‘She’s fearful of the job. She’s intimidated by “Monday Night time Soccer.”’ I wasn’t afraid of the job. I used to be afraid of [executive producer Fred Gaudelli]. I used to be afraid of him screaming at me after each recreation and in the course of the recreation. I cried each recreation. It was terrible.”

“Warrior” hits shops Jan. 23.