Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews recently shared some heartbreaking news about her family. Andrews revealed on her podcast this week that her surrogate suffered a miscarriage.
Andrews and her husband Jarret Stoll already have one child together — Mack — who was born with the help of a surrogate. They were set to add a daughter to their family before receiving the devastating news.
“I’m going to get emotional, because I do need to get home and go see my family. I’ve been sitting here writing notes about this. I didn’t want to do this podcast today, but I realized throughout my life with everything that I’ve gone through in adversity, sometimes this is such a great safe space,” Erin Andrews said.
“We got some real [expletive] news today that our surrogate had miscarried. So I have dealt with this before. But things were going really, really well. And her little heartbeat and her numbers were really good, so much so I even told you guys a couple of weeks ago, because we thought we had such good news.”
Andrews spoke about her surrogate suffering a miscarriage with Ryan Musick, who is the producer of her podcast with Charissa Thompson.
Thompson was unavailable for this week’s podcast, so Musick filled in. The two answered questions from listeners, before Andrews spoke about her family.
“I’ve been trying really hard to pay attention, I’ve just been tearing up the whole time and trying to stay focused. But I’m also really good at suppressing my feelings and work really helps me with that,” Andrews said.
“I think one of the things I’m so sad about is I’m going to have to do a better job of dealing with my feelings with this, because the last time we had such loss I didn’t and I suffered with it.”
As Erin Andrews said, she and Jarret Stoll have had a surrogate suffer a miscarriage before. Andrews has also dealt with and been open about fertility issues for years.
“I think I kind of made a promise to myself that when I was really open with how [expletive] infertility has been and our journeys with two surrogates, because we had loss with our first surrogate, and then luckily with our second one we had Mack, that I was just going to be honest with people. … I decided I would be honest about this,” Andrews said.
“People, you have no idea what they’re dealing with. … This whole thing is so shitty, and I don’t envy people that are going through it. But I envy all the moms and all the families that have to deal with this and put on a happy face. So I know my husband is having a difficult time and I’m going to go home and be with him.”
Andrews is opening up about her struggles in order to try to help others.
“Like I first said when I was dealing with all of these infertility issues and loss that I just wanted to let other people know that were dealing with them that I get it and I understand and I’m going to do that again,” she said. “This really, really sucks, but so many people are dealing with it. So if you feel alone and feel like a failure, I do too, but you’re not the only one. So it really, really sucks.”
