Cape Town - US sports anchor Sara Walsh has revealed that she was fired from ESPN shortly before she was set to return from maternity leave.
According to The Post, on Sunday - Mother's Day - she shared a personal story on social media saying that some time ago, she suffered a miscarriage live on the air while hosting an episode of "SportsCenter" at the University of Alabama.
"The juxtaposition of college kids going nuts behind our set, while I was losing a baby on it, was surreal," Walsh, who said she was three months pregnant at the time, wrote on her Instagram account.
"I was scared, nobody knew I was pregnant, so I did the show while having a miscarriage."
She accompanied the post with a photo of her twins, who were born in January after "two more failed pregnancies" she said she endured after her on-air ordeal.
Walsh moved her family from Florida, where she had chosen to give birth while near her family, back to Connecticut, where ESPN is located, in April, only to be told the next day that she had been fired.
In her Mother's Day message, Walsh wrote, "I wasn't on TV today, and I'm not sure when I will be again, but instead I got to hang with these two good eggs. My ONLY good eggs. And I know how lucky I really am."