Erin Andrews' Dad Made The Sweetest Admission About His Daughter
Erin Andrews shared a heartwarming moment with her father during an emotional TV interview.
Andrews and Steve Andrews, a former award-winning investigative reporter, appeared together on Tuesday's TODAY with Jenna & Friends. Before their interview, the show played a pre-recorded segment of Steve discussing all the adversity his daughter her overcome. The segment ended with a touching soundbite.
"I hope that I have been as good of a dad to her as she's been a daughter to me," he said.
In the studio together, Steve continued to praise Erin for her achievements outside of FOX's NFL broadcasting team. He recalled her anonymously picking up the tab for service members at an airport and volunteering to give up her first-class seat when one passed her in the plane.
"I'm overwhelmed with pride," he said. "It goes beyond, it goes so beyond the sideline reporting."
"But you learn it from your parents," Andrews replied after previously calling Steve an "amazing" father.
As the Andrews family recalled on TODAY, Erin has endured some harrowing experiences. A stalker secretly filmed her through the peephole of a hotel door as she undressed in 2008. Steve recalled her advocating for stricter legislation through Congress to help others suffering through the same situation.
The sideline reporter was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016. Andrews quickly returned to work days after undergoing successful surgery.
"It's scary to hear your child on the phone calling you and saying, 'I have cancer,'" Steve recalled. "I wanted to cry. I was brokenhearted. You have conversations with your God, and as a dad, I just said, 'Let her be OK. Take me, let her be OK.' It was hard."
Erin and her husband, former NHL player Jarret Stoll, also underwent years of in-vitro fertilization before welcoming a son through a surrogate two years ago. A previous surrogate had a miscarriage.
"Erin is such a fighter," Steve said. "In broadcasting, when you get knocked down, you have to be able to get back up. And Erin has experienced these physical, traumatic incidents, and you would think for the average person ... you're done.
"She just used that as motivation to say, 'This is not going to beat me, and they are not going to stop me from what I want to accomplish.' And honestly, I don't know that I have it in me to do what she did. She's just so strong. So amazing."
Erin Andrews' Dad Made The Sweetest Admission About His Daughter first appeared on The Spun on Aug 12, 2025
This story was originally reported by The Spun on Aug 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
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