Brittany Watts is finally speaking out after news that drew the nation’s attention broke over the charge she faces in connection to a miscarriage she suffered in her own home.
Watts spoke to WJW’s I-Team about how she felt after failing to deliver her baby and the subsequent felony charge she now faces as a result.
“I was distraught, heartbroken, empty — literally and figuratively, so to speak,” the 33-year-old told WJW.
Watts was admitted twice to the hospital during the third week of September before her miscarriage after experiencing severe cramping and bleeding, the outlet reported. However, after having to wait for hours in a hospital room during those visits, she left.
However, Traci Timiko, Watts’ lawyer, said her client was told that her fetus “was not viable and could not and would not survive.”
She miscarried that Friday. She was 22 weeks along in her pregnancy at the time. Afterward, she tried to flush the toilet, but it overflowed, so she used a bucket to clean up.
Timiko says Watts desperately tried to keep the pregnancy from her family. She didn’t even want them to know she suffered a miscarriage, so she went to a hair appointment she had scheduled for that day to keep up appearances.
However, moments after she arrived, her hairdresser grew concerned and called her mother. Then she was taken to the hospital.
Watts believed she would only be evaluated and treated at most during that visit. She never foresaw the hospital calling the police.
WJW obtained a copy of a nurse’s 911 call:
“This is the hospital, labor and delivery, at St. Joe’s and I need to speak to an officer about a case that I have here. She was sent here with bleeding on Tuesday and that night she left, against medical advice. She came back in on Wednesday still bleeding and said, ‘Maybe I do need to be seen.’ So we readmitted her and we were talking her through everything and she disappeared.”
The nurse told the…
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