Erin Andrews has made her first public appearance since she was rewarded $55 million after a man who stalked her secretly video tapped her naked in her hotel room and then posted the footage online. The spotscaster and "Dancing with the Stars" host dropped by "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Wednesday night to thank her supporters and talk about the lawsuit.
While Andrews called her appearance on Kimmel's her "come-out of hiding," she admitted to the host that she currently did not have $1 million to give him.
"I don't have any money," Andrews told Kimmel. "I have not signed a new contract with Dancing. Oh, but my Fox contract is up!"
All jokes aside, Kimmel then took a moment to congratulate Andrews on her court win, and while she could not reveal many details of lawsuit, she used the moment to address her fans who stuck by her side throughout her entire ordeal. "I want to thank everybody. There were so many people that actually reached out all over the world-[they] really were so supportive," she said.
Kimmel then said that Andrew's case brought out the "nice part of the Internet" to support her.
"Is there a nice part?" She joked. "Mean tweets, they're just a dime a dozen. They were fabulous, let me tell you. But there are so many nice people."
In late February, Andrews spent two weeks tearfully testifying against her stalker, Michael David Barrett, and a Nashville Marriott over the highly publicized tape that was recorded at the hotel. In 2008, Barrett requested to stay in the room next to Andrews and was granted that request. In the room next to hers, he filmed her through the peep hold of her hotel room while she was getting undressed. He put the video online and it has since been viewed more than 17 million times.
"The support I've received from the people of Nashville has been overwhelming. I would also like to thank my family, friends, and legal team. I've been honored by all the support from victims around the world," she wrote on Twitter after her win. "Their outreach has helped me be able to stand up and hold accountable those whose job it is to protect everyone's safety, security and privacy."