Erin Andrews says she suffered near-death experience
Man, this story is tough to read.
Popular sportscaster Erin Andrews recently shared shocking details of what proved to be a near-death experience for her earlier this month, and needless to say, we're thankful that this story has a happy ending when it could have been so much different.
During a recent episode of her iHeart Radio podcast “Calm Down with Erin and Charissa,” with co-host Charissa Thompson, Andrews explained that while en route from Chicago to Green Bay for last week's Packers/Vikings game as well as an interview with Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, her driver actually fell asleep at the wheel.
“I’m typing, headphones are working, we’re good. I hear snoring,” Andrews detailed. “I know it’s not Greg Olsen, Kevin Burkhardt or Aaron Rodgers snoring. It’s my driver who fell asleep at the wheel. On a highway from Chicago!”
Thompson interrupted at that point: “Timeout. What do you mean he fell asleep at the wheel?”
“Snoring. Sleeping,” Andrews reiterated. “And the car is moving, 65 miles an hour.
“I am so thankful I put my phone on mute because we’re on a Zoom. I put my phone on mute and I go “Are you effing sleeping?!” Wakes up, Clark Griswold, it was awful. So now I have the quarterback of the team I’m trying to work on, I’m trying to take notes. I have full-blown anxiety. This is not the way I want to go down. This is not the way I want to die.”
She then detailed she had the driver pull over for a much-needed caffeinated beverage.
“After Aaron [Rodgers] gets off, I go ‘pull over at a Starbucks,’” she said. “I make him pull over at a McDonald’s. I go in, I get him a coffee. He doesn’t drink it. The entire car ride I am like ‘ahem ahem ahem’ monitoring if he’s sleeping at the wheel.”
We're thankful that she's still with us after this terrifying experience!
