Charissa Thompson opens up on nude photo hack nightmare

May 2024 · 3 minute read

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Charissa Thompson’s life turned in a second.

Last January, Thompson, a Fox Sports NFL host, was enjoying her day when the news hit her: Nude photos of Thompson had been stolen from her iCloud and shared online.

Thompson opened up about the horrors that followed in a podcast with The Athletic, saying her friends helped her through the publication of pictures that were from “so long ago.”

“Look, I am very open with my life and I don’t hide a lot of things, but when it comes to your physical being and intimate photos between you and your boyfriend and things that you sent to someone when you were in a long-distance relationship and in love, it is your private property,” Thompson told The Athletic. “So it felt — the obvious — like such an invasion. But then the depths I am still taking to get back that privacy are unbelievable. The way I equate is someone came into my home, robbed my home of all its possessions, put it out in the cul-de-sac right in front of me, and I had to buy all of it right back to put back in my house.

Thompson said that fellow Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews was the first person she called after hearing that the photos were out there. Andrews had been through a similar situation when she was photographed nude through a hotel’s peephole in 2008.

“I just lost it. I started screaming,” Thompson said. “She was the person I called because no one else I knew had been through that, and she was such a huge, huge support system for me and still is now with the stuff I am going through. She felt it on a level I can’t even begin to understand given the nature of what happened to her. I just remember thinking this can’t be real.”

This was the first time she discussed the incident publicly. Now, Thompson is trying to catch the perpetrator, spending what she reportedly called an “astronomical amount of money” to do so.

“I was in a really bad place for a while after that because I started questioning me,” Thompson said. “I am so open with a lot of things in my life and this was so private and it was really tough. I get emotional talking about … It was just really s—-y. I try to bring levity to a lot of situations and laugh stuff off but this one was tough. I felt dumb that I had left those pictures there.”

Her lawyer, Andrew Brettler, said in late January that “it’s important that the responsible individual or individuals are held accountable for this because it’s a disgusting invasion of my client’s privacy rights.”

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