Erin Andrews Tells Oprah About Her Peeping Tom Nightmare

Posted by: Jessica Wakeman Filed in: news, video
4:00PM, Friday September 11th 2009

When ESPN reporter Erin Andrews learned in July some perverted peeping Tom had videotaped her naked through a peephole in her hotel room, she did what any of us would do: she called her parents screaming. Andrews told Oprah Winfrey about her ordeal on this afternoon’s show:

“Having to call my parents and they—they thought I was physically injured how bad I was screaming…I kept screaming [to my father], ‘I’m done. My career is over. I’m done. Get it off. Get it off the Internet. Get it off.’”

This whole story is sad and disgusting and I really admire Andrews for holding her head high through this ordeal. Several male friends have told me they wanted the videos because they wanted (I paraphrase) “to see what the hoopla was all about.” I cannot understand how they don’t feel like they aren’t victimizing Andrews over and over again when they’ve watched. (Or aired these videos. Yes, I am looking at you, Bill O’Reilly!) If a person chooses to pose naked, I am fine with that. But we know the Erin Andrews videos were not consensual. [NY Post]

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effing hickster
wrote on September 11 2009 @ 03:44 pm: [report]

I just have to say - as one who feels that pornography does have its place in society, and that freedom of speech is one of our country’s most precious privileges…

...Mothers and fathers, please - please create a MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE with your children (male and female) that addresses the issue of ethics and their place in today’s media - television, film, electronic eavesdropping, and of course, the internet.
Staying silent on any issue that is either delicate or questionably ethical—freedom of speech, gun control, racism, immigration policy, you-name-it,—creates more problems than it can avoid. If you don’t help and guide your children to make independent, ethical decisions, then they will most often take the path of least resistance, or possibly let others decide for them what is acceptable and what is not.

Erin Andrews is a victim, not once, but several hundred thousand times over almost every single day because of the actions of one individual, and subsequently hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of other individuals, acted upon interests that were puerile and fiscally greedy in nature—including the media.

Had Erin Andrews wanted to become an adult film star, that would have been her prerogative. However, one of us, all of us, have removed from her that right and privilege. It should have never been our decision. It should have been hers.