Lisa Guerrero Says She Was Suicidal After Firing by ABC. Previous Monday Night Football Reporter
>> previous Monday Night Football sideline columnist Lisa Guerrero uncovered she was embarrassed, discouraged, and self-destructive subsequent to being terminated after her solitary season chipping away at the famous early evening broadcast.
"I thought about committing suicide," Guerrero told the distribution.
Guerrero, who presently works for Inside Edition, was seen as the powerless connection on a transmission group that additionally included Al Michaels and John Madden, and was cut from MNF by ABC following the 2003 NFL season.
It was an overwhelming blow for a lady who had not needed the work yet had been persuaded to take it and leave her job at Fox dealing with Best Damn Sports Show. As per Guerrero, one of the ones who persuaded her to take the work was previous MNF chief maker Fred Gaudelli. They didn't wind up being a decent match.
"I was alarmed," Guerrero revealed to The Post. "Individuals at home most likely viewed at it as, 'She's terrified of the work. She's scared by Monday Night Football.' I wasn't anxious about the work. I feared [Gaudelli]. I feared him shouting at me after each game and during the game. I cried each game. It was terrible."
Gaudelli, who is currently the chief maker of Sunday Night Football on NBC, paints an alternate picture.
"I've generally held the creation and designing group, the broadcasters and, the majority of all, myself to the most elevated of norms on all shows," Gaudelli said in articulation to The Post. "I accept this methodology has amplified the exhibition of those I've worked with for a very long time. I like Lisa. I put forth a valiant effort to help and empower her. I'm disillusioned to be finding out about this unexpectedly 17 years after we cooperated on Monday Night Football."
In spite of the fact that her spell on MNF is as yet a trouble spot for Guerrero, the 56-year-old seems as though she has proceeded onward.
"I need Monday Night Football to be a line on my list of qualifications, however, I don't need Monday Night Football to be the keep going line on my list of references, so I got myself, and I truly began to ponder what I needed to do," she said.
Everything being equal, she isn't the primary individual to be unjustifiably ridiculed after an unpleasant spell on MNF, and likely will not be the last.