Erin Andrews Recalls Painful Public Reaction To Her Nude Photo Leak

Erin Andrews is reflecting on a harrowing experience in which she was publicly shamed after her privacy was violated.

The Fox Sports broadcaster will appear on an episode of Hoda Kotb’s podcast “Making Space” on Wednesday, but the “Today” show released a few quotes from her upcoming interview in which Andrews recalls how she felt after a nude video of herself went public.

“People thought it was a scandal, and I’m the square from high school,” Andrews told Kotb of the public’s unfair response.

In 2008, a stalker filmed the former “Dancing with the Stars” host undressing in her room at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University without her knowledge. The peeping Tom asked hotel staff to be placed in the room next to hers after an employee confirmed she’d be staying there on a specific date. The man then rigged a peephole in order to record her while she was changing, and released the footage online in 2009.

At the time of the video’s release, many believed that Andrews had staged the footage, and released it for attention and endorsements.

Andrews told Kotb that she initially learned about the video from a friend who worked at Sports Illustrated, and was initially in complete disbelief because she had zero recollection of taking or posing for such intimate footage.

“I’m single. I don’t have that going on in my life,” Andrews recalled telling her friend, who went on to insist the explicit video was of her.

Andrews also recalled her knee-jerk reaction after watching the footage for the first time — which was to call her parents for emotional support.

“My dad says he thought I had been in a car accident because I was just screaming,” Andrews said. “And I feel so bad. My parents were incredible. I was, God, in my 30s when that happened, and I resorted to acting like a 15-year-old because, in terms of not wanting to deal, my parents really, they were on the forefront.”

Although Andrews has said in the past that she also became physically sick and began to vomit after first watching the footage, the leaked video was only the beginning of what would become a nightmare for Andrews.

According to a computer expert who later testified in a 2016 lawsuit that Andrews filed against her stalker and the companies that managed the Nashville Marriott hotel, the nude images of Andrews that…