Erin Andrews opens up on ‘really hard’ year balancing work, motherhood and personal life

Erin Andrews got emotional while discussing her life, both in and out of the spotlight, during the 2024-25 NFL season.

During the latest installment of the “Calm Down” podcast, the Fox Sports veteran reporter opened up about having “multiple meltdowns” as she juggled her career and personal life, including raising her son, Mack, who turns 2 years old in June, with her husband, former NHLer Jarret Stoll.

“It’s really hard, it really is,” Andrews said when asked about balancing work and life outside of it during a live taping of her and Charissa Thompson’s podcast. “My better half [Stoll] works in the hockey world, and so his season is going on at the same time. This was a really, really hard year. I’ll going to get emotional about it.

“The first year when [Mack] was a newborn, it was fine. It was like smell ya later and I really wasn’t really saying [that], but it was like, ‘OK, bye!’ We worked so hard to have Mack, and it took us forever to have him — and we faced a lot of loss, and he finally came [via surrogate in the summer of 2023].

“I had this attitude like, ‘I have this carer and this is how it’s going to be.’ And then he starts talking and realizing you’re leaving, and it was just really, really hard. And then I felt like the time I wasn’t studying, or on calls with players, or on Zooms that I had to be with him and not worrying about [my] clothing line [WEAR by Erin Andrews] and the podcast.”

Andrews, whose broadcasting career and WEAR clothing line helped propel her to celebrity status, had a nine-year in vitro fertilization (IVF) journey before the couple welcomed Mack via a surrogate.

“I would just have multiple meltdowns with Charissa saying, ‘I feel like I’m not giving 100 percent of myself to my son, or my job or my clothing line and I feel like I am barely above water.’ And then your relationships start to suffer.

“I didn’t see any of my girlfriends throughout football season and then I got through it and I had a couple weeks off, and I’ve said to her, ‘I don’t know,’ excuse me, ‘How the f–k I did that,’ this year because I’m also traveling.”

Andrews explained that she learned a lot about balancing her work life and her personal life, and that she needs to give herself some grace.

“And I didn’t do myself any favors with how hard on myself I was, I didn’t,” she said. “But I’m excited about next year and I’m excited to take what I’ve learned with everything and apply it ot this year. I need to go easier on myself and I’ve realized that. I was do worried aI was wasn’t giving all of myself to both things that I was doing the best I could and everybody’s fine. I just need to give myself a little grace.”

This wasn’t the first time Andrews discussed juggling her career and home life.

“My husband would rather we not be so public — me not be so public,” Andrews told Success magazine in an interview published in January.

The Fox Sports personality was referring to going public with her IVF treatments in 2021.

“He was just like, ‘Why do we have to say this?’” Andrews recalled Stoll saying at the time. “And I said, ‘Because these waiting rooms are packed.’”

Andrews and Stoll tied the knot in June 2017, six months after she announced that she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer in September 2016.

The former “Dancing With the Stars” host underwent a successful surgery following her diagnosis and she is currently cancer free.

Earlier this month, Andrews said on her podcast that she was dealing with a painful pre-skin cancer issue on her upper lip.