Defense witness in Erin Andrews lawsuit allegedly watched her secretly filmed nude vid with friends and made fun of her body

Erin Andrews’ civil trial against the Tennessee hotel where a peeping pervert secretly filmed her naked in her room was briefly halted Wednesday when a defense witness admitted he’d watched the nude footage online.

Neal Peskind, who works for the corporation that owns the Marriott at Vanderbilt in Nashville where the 2008 incident occurred, said he was at a restaurant Tuesday night when friends started watching the film of Andrews, according to NBC News.

He claimed he asked them to stop but said “it was not as quickly as I had hoped,” the network said.

But a waitress at the restaurant — whose tweet about the incident helped alert officials — said Peskind and his friends made fun of Andrews’ body as they goggled at the illicit footage of her emerging from a shower.

Peskind had testified on behalf of the hotel Monday, a day before the former ESPN sports host took the stand to tearfully testify about how the leaked online video nearly destroyed her.

Andrews suffered “mild” posttraumatic stress disorder when she learned Michael Barrett had removed part of her hotel door peephole to film her, an expert said Wednesday. Kim Brown, a professor of psychiatry at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said Andrews had coped admirably with the trauma of having footage of her posted online.

 

“She’s not experiencing significant impairment ... but she is experiencing distress,” Brown said.

“She’s a very resilient individual.”

Andrews, now a Fox Sports host, has sued the owner and manager of the Nashville Marriott for $75 million.

Andrews, now a Fox Sports host, has sued the owner and manager of the Nashville Marriott for $75 million.