Erin Andrews shared heartbreaking news Thursday that her surrogate suffered a miscarriage.
The Fox Sports reporter, 47, spoke through tears when discussing the devastating update on the latest episode of her “Calm Down” podcast, noting how she and husband Jarret Stoll — who welcomed son Mack in 2023 via surrogate — thought things were progressing positively as the surrogate carried the couple’s second child.
“We got some real sh—y, news today that our surrogate had miscarried. So, I have dealt with this before, but things were going really, really well. And her little heartbeat and her numbers were really good — so much so I even told you guys a couple weeks ago because we thought we had such good news,” Andrews said, as covered by People.
The WEAR by Erin Andrews designer said she tried to keep focus while recording Thursday’s episode with producer Ryan Musick, who filled in for co-host Charissa Thompson.
“I’ve just been tearing up the whole time and trying to stay focused,” she said. “But I’m also really, really good at suppressing my feelings, and work really helps me with that. I think one of the things I’m so sad about is that I’m going to have to do a better job with dealing with my feelings with this because the last time we had such a loss, I didn’t, and I suffered with it. Been sitting here thinking about Taylor Swift’s song, ‘I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,’ I’m really good at doing this s–t with a broken heart.”
Andrews has long been open about her infertility struggles and cited that transparency as she and her family grapple with this heartache.
“I think I kinda made a promise to myself that when I was really open with how sh–ty infertility has been and our journey with two surrogates, because we did lose…we had loss with our first surrogate and then luckily with our second one, we had Mack, that I was just going to be honest with people,” she said.
“… I decided to be honest about this. People, you have no idea what they’re dealing with, and people deal more with loss than they do with what, the reward? I don’t even know, I can’t even think right, but this whole thing is so sh—ty, and I don’t envy people that are going through it. … I know my husband is having a difficult time and I’m going to go home and be with him, and then we’re going to throw our little 2-year-old in a pool and I feel like squeezes are going to feel a little different from him today.”
Andrews reiterated that she wanted to be candid about what was going on in her personal life so that others dealing with similar matters do not feel alone.
“Like I said, when I was first dealing with all these infertility issues and loss, that I just wanted to let other people know that are dealing with them that I get it and I understand, and I’m going to do that again. This really, really sucks but so many people are dealing with it so if you feel alone and you feel like a failure, I do too, but you’re not the only one.”
Andrews and Stoll, a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Kings, have been married since 2017.