Erin Andrews is facing a minor health issue, and podcast cohost Charissa Thompson is here to help.
“For those of you that are new, Erin’s working through some — an issue on her upper lip,” Thompson, 42, said during the Monday, March 3 episode of their “Calm Down” podcast. “But it’s not what you think it is.”
Thompson’s explanation came after she could be heard saying “don’t touch that” to Andrews, 46, during the podcast episode. “It is so crusty and it really hurts,” Andrews replied before sharing more details.
“It’s a pre-skin cancer situation,” Andrews said. “I did a cream for five days on it. …That’s also something we’ll get to in the big show, doing our own makeup and doing the appointments that you need to do.” (The “big show” is a reference to the longer weekly episode of “Calm Down” — set to be released on Thursday, March 6 — which is separate from Thompson and Andrews’ Q&A sessions.)
Andrews further explained that she went for a full skin check.
“I wanted to pass out in the middle of it because I’m so afraid they’re going to find something,” she said. “We’ll talk about it in the big show.”
Andrews has been open about her health issues after receiving a cervical cancer diagnosis in September 2016.
“I’m really healthy. I didn’t think I would be a candidate for [cervical cancer],” she said in a 2019 interview with Coping Mag. “I thought I was totally fine and just getting ready for Week 3 in the NFL, and I got a call that I wasn’t. And then I think you just go through panic.”
She added, “I remember I said to my gynecologist at the time, ‘What do I tell my parents? What do I tell my boyfriend!?’”
At the time, Andrews was dating now-husband Jarret Stoll, who was “amazing” during her health battle. (Andrews and Stoll welcomed son Mack via surrogate in 2023.)
Andrews underwent surgery to remove the cancer in October 2016. She went back to work before undergoing another surgery the following month. By November 2016, Andrews was in the clear. Andrews publicly revealed her health battle during a January 2017 interview with Sports Illustrated.
“It was picked up the next day by every media organization,” she recalled in the same 2019 interview. “I remember lying in bed because I knew once it came out people were going to focus on how I had just worked a whole football season, and no one knew I had cancer.”
