She adds, “I was in a coma-like state. I truly felt I was slipping away. Then I kept hearing, ‘Robin! Robin!’ I came out of it, and it was my nurse Jenny. She was screaming at me. I saw her enlarged eyes above her mask, pleading for me to stay here. And thankfully I did. I came back.”
“I don’t know if my heart will ever stop pounding, waiting to hear what the numbers are,” said Roberts about her blood counts. But she remains optimistic of the future, “I want to give people hope. I want to let them know there is another day.”
Then she reveals, “I can be fearful or fearless. I choose to be fearless.”
Before Good Morning America
Long before she was courting celebrities on Good Morning America, anchor Robin Roberts was a star player on the basketball court.
Her love affair with basketball was born at Southeastern Louisiana University as a record-setting power forward for the Lady Lions. After college, she went from being a college athlete to covering them and went on to become one of the defining voices of women’s college basketball. Now, Robin is being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor for “having significantly impacted the game of women’s basketball.”