Erin Andrews' father took the stand and revealed his daughter is a "shell of the person" he used to know after her traumatic ordeal.
The sportscaster is in an ongoing case against the owner and manager of the Nashville Marriott, where in 2008 stalker Michael David Barrett created a peephole and filmed a naked Andrews changing.
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After attempting to sell the tape he made, Barrett ended up posting it online to the horror of Andrews and her family.
"I really thought that someone was trying to kill my daughter," Steve Andrews told jurors Wednesday, according to the New York Post.
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The video was posted online in 2009 and Barrett was arrested that October, but Erin Andrews is still entrenched in the lawsuit against the hotel, where she seeks $75 million in damages.
Andrews sobbed as her father talked about the horror the family went through, according to The Post. The Andrews family was particularly perplexed by the FBI report, which stated Barrett asked the hotel if she was staying there and the concierge workers confirmed it.
The hotel also obliged when the former insurance salesman requested a room right next to her.
"They put him in a room next to her," Steve Andrews said. "And he's up against the door videotaping my daughter. She's undressed, she's getting ready for a football game. If this guy had been a killer, she'd be dead."
Erin Andrews was working for ESPN at the time, but is now a part of the Fox Sports team. Her father added that "she's not the girl that we used to know" and she's depressed, full of anxiety and a changed person.
Her father also recalled the distraught phone call he received from his daughter in July 2009 when the video appeared on the Internet.
"She was just screaming, 'I'm on the Internet. I'm naked. Everything I've worked for is done. We've got to get it down. We've got to get it down,'" he said. "I just couldn't believe what I was hearing."
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