Why Eva Amurri Martino Is Happy Her Husband Fired the Nanny

Actress and lifestyle blogger writes about an incident he had with the nanny.

ByABC News
March 1, 2016, 1:19 PM
Actress Eva Amurri Martino, and former soccer player Kyle Martino attend The Max Mara 2015 Women In Film Face Of The Future event at Chateau Marmont, June 15, 2015, in West Hollywood, Calif.
Actress Eva Amurri Martino, and former soccer player Kyle Martino attend The Max Mara 2015 Women In Film Face Of The Future event at Chateau Marmont, June 15, 2015, in West Hollywood, Calif.
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— -- Eva Amurri Martino and her husband Kyle Martino weren't about to become another Hollywood tabloid story.

When their nanny, who looked after their 19-month-old daughter Marlowe Mae, allegedly sent a racy text to Martino while Amurri Martino was out of town, he fired her as a response.

The actress and lifestyle blogger, 30, wrote about the experience in her latest blog titled "Nannygate 2.0."

"An hour before [the nanny] was supposed to arrive for the day, Kyle got a text message from her show up on his cell phone," Amurri Martino claimed. "It said: 'OMG. Girl, did I mention to you how hot and sex my Boss is. I would love to f*** his brains out ha haah. Too bad he seems not to like thick Latin women with lots to hold on to LOL."

She says Martino, a former pro soccer player who is now a network sports analyst and host of Travel Channel's "36 Hours," was returning home with Marlowe after eating breakfast out when he noticed the nanny peeping out from the curtains of their bedroom window.

Amurri Martino, the daughter of Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, said that's when her husband realized "that text was NOT a mistake."

After Martino, 35, confronted the woman -- and recorded the conversation on his iPhone -- she told him that she had been in his bedroom looking for him, and that the text was meant for someone else. "I was just messing around with a friend I didn’t mean any harm," she told him, according to Amurri Martino.

Martino then paid her for the day and sent her on her way.

The experience, Amurri Martino wrote, made her "grateful for my strong relationship with my husband. I know that this happens all the time with different results. The rumors of this type of thing are all over the tabloids all the time."

But, after losing a second nanny in three weeks, Amurri Martino, who says she works around the clock on her blog, now had a childcare crisis on her hands. So the family packed up and moved from their California home to a temporary one in Westchester County, New York, so Martino can work on the East Coast and their families and close friends can help out.

Said Amurri Martino, "Strangely, this bizarre Nanny experience brought us even closer (emotionally and geographically) than we would have been otherwise."