Erin Andrews returns to the sidelines tonight for ESPN, her first time back on live TV since the popular reporter was the unwilling subject of a video made behind her back.
Andrews was at the center of a maelstrom of attention after a peeping tom spied on her in a hotel room, videotaped her nude and posted the grainy footage on the Internet.
Andrews, 31, will be working the sidelines for ESPN’s broadcast of the South Carolina vs. North Carolina State college football game.
While she’s looking forward to getting back to work after a tumultuous summer, Andrews is willingly baring her soul on TV next week – in an emotional appearance on the season premiere of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Andrews opens up for the first time about the videotape ordeal she calls a “nightmare.”
According to ABCNews.com, Andrews tells Winfrey she felt like she was violated all over again after the story broke and a swarm of press and paparazzi camped outside her house in a gated community in Atlanta.
She even compared herself to Britney Spears in a desperate call to 911.
“My last name is Andrews. I’m all over the news right now,” she told the 911 operator. “I’m the girl that was videotaped without her knowing, without her clothes on in the hotel. They’re looking at me through my window.”
Andrews says that when the operator asked if she was okay, she responded: “I did nothing wrong, and I’m being treated like . . . Britney Spears.”
“I just felt like I was continuing to be victimized,” Andrews tells Winfrey in the interview, which airs on Sept. 11.
Andrews, nicknamed “Erin Pageviews” for her popularity on the Internet, is also appearing in a GQ magazine spread this month.
The photos, taken before the Internet video was in the news, show Andrews wearing a football uniform covered in mud.
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