Erin Andrews Opens Up About Becoming a Mom After '10 Years of Hell'
etonline.comErin Andrews is finally a mom! In an interview with Today.com, the 45-year-old sportscaster recalled the «10 years of hell» she went through before she and her husband, NHL alum Jarret Stoll, welcomed their son, Mack, via surrogate last month.Prior to Mack's birth, Andrews underwent 10 years of IVF, stopping only for cervical cancer treatment in 2016.
The process got to be so hard that Andrews and Stoll wouldn't even say the words «the treatment didn't work.»«I'd call him and be like, 'I'm in the drive-thru of McDonald's again, having a sausage biscuit breakfast sandwich because we just got bad news,'» Andrews said. «It was 10 years of hell.»Things took a particularly bad turn two years ago when Andrews and Stoll lost twins via surrogacy.«That was really hard,» she said. «I really struggled mentally.
I didn't handle it very well… I kind of tried to push it aside and act like everything was OK.»Eventually, Andrews broke down crying while on a plane.«I just could not stop crying,» she recalled. "[Mack] was our golden embryo.
He was our last hope."A post shared by TODAY (@todayshow)When it came time for Andrews and Stoll's surrogate to give birth, Andrews was nervous to be in the delivery room because «I get really queasy, and I've been known to pass out,» she said.But when the nurse informed Andrews that the surrogate wanted to hold her hand, the sportscaster did just that.«I went and I grabbed her hand — and she had this tear coming out of her eye,» Andrews said. «We're so into sports in our family and we were cheering for her like she was our quarterback.
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