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We now know why Pam Oliver was slurring her words during the broadcast of the NFL’s Christmas Day Game.
On Sunday, fans accused Oliver of being drunk because she was slurring her words throughout the broadcast of the Dolphins-Packers game.
Pam Oliver sounds wasted pic.twitter.com/O5CSUC8rrS
— sportsvids99 (@sportsvids991) December 25, 2022
Oliver’s speech appeared to get worse later in the game.
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After the videos of Oliver went viral, it was revealed that Oliver suffers from migraine headaches and sometimes slurs her words as a result of her condition.
Pam Oliver suffers from chronic migraines which at times in the past, have caused slurred words.
She’s a true professional that seems to be finding a way to gut it out today.#NFLonFox #GBvsMIA #GoPackGo #FinsUp #NFL
— Ben Eby (@TheBenEby) December 25, 2022
Oliver has spoken about her issues with migraines during a 2021 interview with Richard Deitsch.
“Well, I’ve had several [migraines] over the course of the football season,” Oliver said of her migraines during a November 2021 interview with Richard Deitsch. “For example, I’ve gone from averaging 5-6 a month down to averaging 3 a month. I consider that being lucky. They’re very debilitating for me. They’ve been a problem for a very, very long time. It’s caused me to miss a few games over the span of my career because I just couldn’t take the noise and the light and the sickness that comes with that. The nausea and the vomiting.
“There was one game, about three-four years ago. I live in Atlanta. I was minutes from Mercedez-Benz [Stadium]. My driver, I said, you gotta pull over. We were less than five minutes from the stadium. I’m hurling. My head is pounding. And I made the decision right then and there, I’m no good to anyone. There’s no way that I felt like I was gonna get through that game, be productive, help the crew, contribute in any way. So, turned around and I went home. I felt so guilty about that for the longest time, but they really do knock me out of action.
“I feel like they’ve gotten better, just from the standpoint of having fewer. But they definitely are real. And they continue to plague me. And not to have people feel sorry for me, but that’s just the way it is. That’s just part of my health issue.”