Chelsea Freeman on husband Freddie Freeman’s World Series run and his son’s health journey

Chelsea Freeman opens up about husband Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Vrijman‘s impressive performance in the MLB World Series and the support of her family behind the scenes.

In an exclusive interview with “Good morning America” performed prior to Game 5 of the World seriesthe mother of three spoke about her husband’s incredible run, her son Max Freeman’s recent health battle and the Dodgers’ supportive community.

“The craziest thing is that he’s injured now, so he’s playing with a sprained ankle, a broken finger and all these other things. So our standards were very low,” she said.

“The fact that he’s played as unbelievably well as he has is like an absolute miracle. It’s really hard to even have words for the things he does,” she said of her husband, who plays in every World Series game hit a home run. this season despite injuries, including an ankle injury in the playoffs.

“He’s such a perfectionist, so he doesn’t think he’s performed as well as he would have liked. So for him to finally go out on this note with all the things he does is just absolutely incredible,” she said.

Chelsea Freeman also addressed the Freeman family’s reaction to seeing the Dodgers’ first baseman’s historic first-ever World Series walk-off grand slam home run in the first game of the series.

She said her oldest son, 8-year-old Charlie, who plays baseball himself, watched his father’s heroic moment in the Dodgers’ nursery.

“The Dodgers have the most insane nursery…So he was in the nursery (with) Brandon and Max,” she said, referring to her two 3-year-old sons she shares with Freddie. “He said all the kids were sitting around the TV watching and thinking, ‘We’re about to lose, you know, I really hope not, but two outs in the tenth inning and we’re down.’ “

“Freddie hit that ball. And he said they all started going crazy, like jumping on him, jumping up and down, like this was just the coolest moment ever.”

Despite overcoming injuries and achieving monumental success on the field, the Freeman family has faced new personal challenges at home this season. This summer, Chelsea shared that their son Max had been diagnosed Guillain-Barré syndrome.

On an Instagram aftershe wrote that Max “deteriorated rapidly and became completely paralyzed,” but that they were able to take him to a hospital to “strengthen his lungs.” She said that after some of the “hardest and scariest days” for their family, he was extubated “off his breathing tube and taken off the ventilator.” She also asked for prayers in her emotional update.

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeThe syndrome is a “rare neurological disorder in which a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks part of their peripheral nervous system.”

Chelsea said Max is now ‘doing much better’ and is receiving physiotherapy.

“As far as his Guillain-Barré – he’s still doing PT – all that, but I mean, his improvements have been absolutely amazing,” she said. “Our PTs, neurologists or doctors are all very happy with how well he is doing.”

She said the family has found an incredible support system within the Dodgers organization.

“The Dodgers were so supportive of us and our family and Max from the beginning. I felt like every woman in that organization reached out to me… I just felt so connected.”

She continued, “We are a family and we know we can count on them for anything and they have our backs. That’s why I think it’s so cool that Freddie finally gets to have his shining moment and gives something back to them and the fans. and the Dodgers in general for being absolutely incredible for us throughout the entire process.”

The Dodgers are currently one win away from winning the World Series, hoping to topple the New York Yankees in a series that sees some of the biggest names in sports compete on baseball’s biggest stage.

Despite sharing the field with the likes of Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, it is Freddy Freeman, a star in his own right, who is a heavy favorite to win the World Series MVP should the Dodgers win the series.

“I mean, you couldn’t even write this,” Chelsea Freeman said. “From what we’ve been through this year. I mean, it would be a complete 360. Obviously there’s not even words for that — it would just be absolutely incredible to win the World Series and do it with the Dodgers.”

Chelsea Freeman said everything the family has been through would make this World Series victory extra special.

“We’ve done it before, but Freddie is from California, so to do it in front of his family, and this fan base and this organization that has been there for us and supported us all year, it would just be absolutely, absolutely incredible. to do it with the Dodgers and get the ring.