Erin Andrews Says Cervical Cancer Changed Her Relationship With Fiancé Jarret Stoll

“Dancing With the Stars” co-host Erin Andrews opened up about how being diagnosed with cervical cancer in September changed her relationship with fiancé Jarret Stoll, a professional hockey player. The health scare made the couple closer and talk about the possibility of marriage and children.

At the time of her diagnosis, Stoll was her boyfriend. “It was a huge step for my relationship with my boyfriend at the time,” Andrews recalled during an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight Online Tuesday. “Because you don't know if a guy is going to want to sit in with an oncologist and see, ‘OK, so this is your cervix, and this is your uterus, and we are cutting out this part…’”

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Andrews’ battle with cancer forced her and Stoll to think about the future. ”We hadn’t even been discussing marriage,” she continues. “We hadn’t discussed babies! It really puts things on the fast track for you — because you have an oncologist saying to you, ‘We highly recommend that you guys do your embryos right now, freeze them.’ I'm like, ‘Hi, hon. I love you. I hope we’re spending our lives together.’ And he was amazing.”

Now, the couple is sure they want to have children. Andrews revealed her interview was pushed back with ET Online because she was in the middle of the in-vitro fertilization cycle. “We don't know what the future entails. We actually had to push this photo shoot because I was in the middle of [the IVF cycle],” she said. “We don't know what the future entails. We actually had to push this photo shoot because I was in the middle of [the IVF cycle]. I'm doing all these [IVF] shots and in these bathing suits, and I was like, ‘Yay, look at my pin marks!’”

Andrews bounced back she her stalker, Michael David Barrett, filmed her while she was naked in a hotel room in 2008. Andrews’ sued the hotel, since they granted him the room, and was awarded $55 million eight years later.

Originally, she sued the Nashville Marriott for $75 million, accusing them of negligence that lead to emotional distress and invasion of privacy.

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Barrett pleaded guilty. He served two years in prison.

During her testimony, Andrews said she constantly had to relive the invasion of privacy. “This happens every day of my life,” she said in court. “Either I get a tweet, or somebody makes a comment in the paper, or somebody sends me a still of the video to my Twitter, or somebody screams it at me in the stands. And I’m right back to this.”

After the verdict was announced, she took to Twitter to thank the jury and the court. “The support I’ve received from the people of Nashville has been overwhelming,” she said.

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