Rebecca Grossman’s teen daughter tearfully reveals how mom’s baseball star lover HID while the socialite was talking to cops and drunkenly barged into her home and threatened to ‘RUIN’ her family over crash that killed two young brothers

Rebecca Grossman’s tearful teenage daughter told the wealthy socialite’s murder trial Friday how she saw her mother’s lover, Scott Erickson, hiding behind a tree and Grossman talking to police after the horrific crash that killed two young brothers.

And she told how Erickson later burst into her house, smelling of booze, and shouted, “Why did your mother quit?” and threatened to “ruin me and my family” if she told anyone she saw him at the accident scene.

Alexis Grossman – who was 16 at the time of the tragedy – told the court she was driving to pick up a pizza when she saw police lights flashing and saw her mother, near her white Mercedes SUV, being chased by police was questioned.

“I stopped and ran to her screaming, ‘Mommy, Mommy.’ But the police told me I couldn’t talk to my mother and told me to go home.’

Alexis, now 19 and a sophomore at Clemson University, said she went back to her car and that’s when she turned around and “I saw Scott Erickson.” He was sitting behind a tree in the bushes and stuck his head out and we made eye contact.”

She told lead attorney Tony Buzbee that she did not see Erickson’s black Mercedes SUV and did not speak to him because, “I was so surprised to see my mother surrounded by police.” I panicked and had a panic attack.’

She drove the short distance back to her mother’s house in Westlake Village, where shortly after she got there, “The front door burst open and Scott Erickson came in and said, ‘Why did your mother stop?’ Why did your mother stop?’

‘He seemed very angry. He was furious. I smelled alcohol on him. He panicked. I was scared.

“He shouted, ‘Don’t say anything.’ Don’t tell anyone you saw me or I will ruin you and your family.’

‘He’s a big guy. He’s a baseball player and he was scary,” added Erickson’s Alexis, a 6-foot-4, 240-pound former professional pitcher.

“I was afraid he would do something to hurt me or my family because of what he said.”

Alexis — wearing a black mini dress and a dark sweater, with her blonde hair tied back — cried as she told Deputy District Attorney Ryan Gould during cross-examination that she loved her mother and would help her “in any way she could.” way’.

When asked by DDA Gould if she had told police she had seen Erickson that night when she was interviewed later, she said, “No, but I wish I had.”

She didn’t even tell her father, Peter Grossman, that she had seen Erickson when she called him later the night of the accident.

“I didn’t tell him about Scott. I called him to tell him his mother had been in an accident.’

When asked why she didn’t tell her father that she had seen Erickson, she said, “He (Erickson) was ranting. He was angry. He shouted, ‘Why did your mother stop?’

“He said, ‘Don’t tell anyone you saw me.’ If you do, I will ruin you and your family.” It was the worst moment of my life.’

Alexis said she eventually told her parents that she had seen Erickson that night and when she told their original attorney on the case, “He said, ‘Don’t tell anyone.’ They got the wrong man, and he told her not to get involved in this.

That lawyer died and Grossman hired Buzbee and his team from Houston, Texas to represent her.

DDA Gould interviewed Alexis in July 2021 – ten months after the crash – and he told her in court on Friday: “You never told me Scott Erickson was hiding in the bushes or behind a tree? “No,” she agreed.

“Or that he returned home that evening,” he added. “No,” she said.

She also admitted that during the interview she told DDA Gould that Erickson had not returned to the house and that their “paths had not crossed that night.”

Alexis admitted that during her mother’s numerous court appearances — including a preliminary hearing in May 2022 — she failed to tell prosecutors that she had seen Erickson the night of the collision.

And she agreed that prosecutors didn’t learn about her encounters with Erickson until the trial began.

When DDA Gould asked her if her mother and Erickson “stayed together for a while” after the collision that killed the Iskander boys, Alexis replied, “I don’t believe so.”

As a result of the fatal crosswalk accident, Erickson was charged with reckless driving. But his case was resolved in February 2022 when a judge ordered him to make a public service announcement to high school students about the importance of safe driving.

During his 15-year pro career, Erickson – now 56 – was a star pitcher with the Minnesota Twins – with whom he won a World Series in 1991 – the Baltimore Orioles, the New York Mets and the Texas Rangers.

He played a year with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2005 and ended his career with the New York Yankees in 2006.

Long Beach, California-born Erickson was married for 17 years to actress, TV sportscaster and reporter Lisa Guerrero, now 59, with whom he lived in LA. They divorced in 2021 and did not have any children together.

Guerrero was a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams in the ’80s and starred in Aaron Spelling’s ’90s TV series Sunset Beach and guest-starred on numerous shows including Frasier, Cybill and In the Heat of the Night.

She changed her career to sports reporting and co-hosted The Best Damn Sports Show Period – which led to a January 2006 cover of Playboy Magazine labeled The Best Damn Sports Beauty.

After a stint as a sideline reporter on Monday Night Football that lasted just a year, she landed a job as a correspondent on TV’s Inside Edition in 2006, where she later became the lead investigative reporter.

In 2007, Guerrero and her then-husband Erickson – who had just retired from baseball – financed the film A Plumm Summer, in which she also starred alongside Jeff Daniels, Billy Baldwin and Henry Winkler.