PSYCHOTHERAPIST: ANDREWS ANXIOUS, DEPRESSED
A psychotherapist has testified that sportscaster and TV host
Erin Andrews was anxious and depressed after a man who stalked her and posted secretly recorded nude videos of her on the Internet was let out of prison.
Loren Comstock told a Davidson County Circuit Court jury in Nashville on Thursday that Andrews came for therapy in 2012 because she promised her parents that she would seek help after the stalker was released.
Michael David Barrett was sentenced to 21⁄ years in prison
2 after admitting to stalking Andrews in three cities, altering peepholes in hotel rooms and secretly recording nude videos. Andrews has filed a $75 million lawsuit against Barrett, West End Hotel Partners, which is the franchise owner of the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University, and Windsor Capital Group, which manages the hotel. Comstock, whose video deposition testimo- ny played before the jury, said Andrews worried the videos would hurt her career.