“Monday Night Football” alum Lisa Guerrero gets real about her time as a sports reporter in the early 2000s in her new memoir “Warrior,” most importantly revealing what happened live on-air. She had a miscarriage during a football game.
After experiencing severe pain in her abdomen during a game as a sideline reporter, “I went ahead and did my report,” Guerrero wrote in a unique fraction His memoirs were shared with the people on Wednesday. “When I felt the wetness between my legs, I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve got my period.’ And then I remembered I was pregnant. I was having a miscarriage! I could feel blood leaking out.
Although the officers’ bathroom was in the tunnel right behind Guerrero, when she informed her assistant she was heading to the restroom, she looked at the reporter like she was “crazy” and said, “They’re going to throw you out.”
Guerrero pushed through her “excruciating” pain to deliver her live report, although she felt “dizzy and nauseous”. She also reminded herself to stand up straight as MNF executive producer Freddy Gaudelli reprimanded her for poor posture on a Wednesday phone call.
“As soon as I finished, I rushed to interview a coach,” Guerrero recalled. Then I headed towards the bathroom. When I sat on the toilet, I could not believe that my body was bleeding. It drenched my pants. I put a wad of paper towels in my underwear.
During the traumatic moment, the longtime “Inside Edition” reporter says she went into “autopilot” mode, with “the only thoughts that crossed [her] Mind [being] he [she] as long as the rest can get through the game [she] Took off my long winter coat. Although he now realizes that he should have gone to the hospital or sat out the rest of the game, it never occurred to Guerrero at the time to tell anyone what was happening to him.
After the game ended, Guerrero went directly to the plane instead of meeting Gaudelli as previously scheduled, where he changed clothes and threw his pants and underwear in a trash can.
The recollection is one of several traumatic incidents Guerrero highlights in the book, as male reporters make derogatory comments about her body, clothing, posture, and sexual assault.
Guerrero said, “I looked in the mirror and did not recognize the pale, thin, scared and not so tired woman staring back at me.”
‘Warrior’ will release on January 24.
