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Sportscaster Erin Andrews has opened up on the trauma caused by her stalker, including the moment she thought it had ruined her career, and the emotional reactions to her 2016 cancer diagnosis from around the NFL.
In 2009, Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty to renting hotel rooms next to Andrews in three cities, rigging peepholes and secretly shooting nude videos of her with his cellphone in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio.
He then uploaded the clips onto the web - which ultimately led to the then-ESPN reporter filing a lawsuit against her stalker and the Nashville hotel, landing him in prison.
Just as the sexual harassment trial was wrapping up, Andrews was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
'I wake up one morning and there's video of me all over the internet,' she told the New York Post.
Sportscaster Erin Andrews has opened up on the trauma she caused by her stalker
In 2009, Michael David Barrett (pictured) pleaded guilty to renting hotel rooms next to Andrews in three cities, rigging peepholes and secretly shooting nude videos of her
'And I called my parents. I always get emotional about that, because I know my parents suffered a lot. I start screaming to them, "My career is over. I am finished. This is going to ruin me!"'
Barrett admitted to stalking Andrews in three cities and altering hotel room peepholes and shooting videos in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, and uploading them on the Internet.
A Tennessee jury awarded Andrews $55 million in damages after Barrett managed to secretly film the TV personality while she was naked in the Nashville Marriot Hotel.
The 54-year-old stalker spent two-and-a-half years in prison following his stalking conviction.
'I had a public trial. I had to prove to a lot of people that I didn't put those pictures up of myself,' she added.
'That was a really tough thing for my family. I would walk around stadiums and just think, "Everybody in this stadium has seen me
