A former Monday Night Football reporter has revealed having gone through the horrifying ordeal of experiencing a miscarriage on air.
Lisa Guerrero, who landed the coveted role as a Monday Night Football reporter for ESPN in 2003, was fired after one season. She’s detailed the misogyny she endured at the network in an upcoming memoir called Warrior set to be released on January 24.
“I was trying to be Barbara Walters while all these radio sports show guys were trying to be the next Howard Stern,” Guerrero told PEOPLE. “They did it for sport — just eviscerating me constantly and talking about my breasts and sexual acts and how I probably was able to get all these big athletes to talk to me.”
The journalist, also an actress and model, revealed going through the ordeal noted above during a Monday night game but couldn’t say anything to anyone about it at the time.
Miserable in that crucible of stress and self-doubt, Guerrero was let go from MNF after a single season. But, as she reveals for the first time, she lost more than her job. Late in that season, at between eight and 12 weeks pregnant, Guerrero had a miscarriage while she was on-air in the middle of a game.
Via PEOPLE
“People who knew what was going on with [my boss] Freddie and who read how I was being treated in the media already looked at me with such pity,” she recalled. “I was a shell of myself. And I felt such shame and embarrassment that the last thing I was going to say is, ‘Oh, and by the way, I just had a miscarriage.’ Most of my best friends will learn about it by reading the book.”
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Having kept this unfortunate incident away from the public for nearly 20 years, Lisa said she doesn’t blame any one person, but an entire season of various stressful events.
“I don’t blame one person for this,” she added. “The miscarriage wasn’t because of Freddie, and it wasn’t because of one radio talk show host or one bad column. It was a culmination of the entire season of negativity and cruelty. It was really cruel.”
