LOS ANGELES — ESPN’s Erin Andrews yesterday begged a court to throw the book at the peeping perv who secretly shot footage of her naked and then posted it on the Internet — and the judge increased the creep’s jail time to 2½ years.
“This will never be over for me, and I want it to never be over for him,” Andrews said in her emotional victim-impact statement.
“The defendant wants to walk, he wants to put this all behind him. The picture on the Internet is mine, not his. It’s my body on the Internet. I did nothing to deserve this. He stalked me intentionally and terrorized me.”
Michael David Barrett, 48, had already pleaded guilty to interstate stalking for tailing the beautiful sidelines reporter across the country and making the video of her through her hotel rooms’ peepholes.
He had agreed to a plea deal of 27 months behind bars — but federal judge Manuel Real yesterday raised the sentence to 30 months.
Still, Andrews wasn’t satisfied.
Barrett, she said, deserves to rot in prison.
“Every time I check into a hotel room, I fear he is in the closet, and every time I go home, I fear he is waiting for me,” said Andrews, who wore a sleek trench coat, black dress and high heels to court.
“I fear for my life.”
And she questioned whether Barrett was truly remorseful for what he did — or just sorry he got caught.
“He pled guilty because the FBI had a box full of evidence, not because he is remorseful,” Andrews said. “What would you pay to protect your daughter if some pervert did what you did to me? I don’t feel safe with you on the loose.”
She added, “You are a sexual predator, you are a sexual deviant. They should lock you up and throw away the key.”
Andrews, 31, dabbed away tears when her lawyer read a letter from her father, St. Petersburg, Fla., TV reporter Stephen Andrews, who couldn’t be with his daughter because of surgery he’s scheduled to have today.
When asked about the surgery outside court, Erin Andrews broke down in tears.
But she really became unglued when a photographer asked her to make picks in the NCAA basketball tournament.
“Do you think I’m thinking about March Madness right now?” she yelled. “What are your picks?”
Barrett used a cellphone camera to take videos of a naked Andrews in Columbus, Milwaukee and Nashville in 2008.
He peddled the sleazy footage to an LA-based celeb Web site, using his creepy e-mail handle, handsfouryou@yahoo.com, authorities said.
The ESPN beauty will compete on the new season of the ABC talent show “Dancing with the Stars,” which begins Monday.
Outside court, Andrews revealed she had actually been cast to appear on last season’s “Dancing” but nixed those plans after the videos surfaced.
“Now I want to smile, I want to live my life,” she said.
“I don’t want to be a victim anymore. I don’t want to run and hide.”
Additional reporting by David K. Li in New York