Erika Jayne Is Confident Crowd “Loved” Her Pride Performace Even Though She Was Distracted By Tom Girardi News

During an episode of the Diamonds in the Rough podcast, EJ told Teddi Mellencamp how she learned Tom was being sent to prison.

It’s about Tom (‘s prison sentence):

“Ten minutes before the second show, I get the news that Tom is being sent to prison.”

“It just hurts. It reopens old healing wounds. I had a sold-out crowd in a theater just for me, and I was so grateful. My happiest place in the whole world to being on stage. So, while I was happy … there’s a little piece [of me] that was like, ‘Ugh.’”

“I was very disappointed. Those people were there for me, and I felt like five percent of myself was feeling sorry for myself. I was 95 percent there, and five percent of myself was feeling sorry for myself. This was the day that he got sentenced, my second show.”

“My first show was flawless. And my second show was great, don’t get me wrong. But, there was that five percent I could have given the audience. Instead, I was feeling sorry for myself.

While she insisted that the crowd “loved” her performance regardless, Erika was “fighting back thoughts and emotions” that distracted her performance.

ICYMI:

On his 86th birthday, Tom Girardi, was sentenced to prison for defrauding his clients. Courtroom News reported, “Judge Josephine Staton ruled that Girardi’s evident mental decline was not so severe that he couldn’t serve his sentence in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility.”