Kelly Stafford Admits She Felt 'Guilt' for Exposing Entire L.A. Rams Team to Sick Kids on Private Jet

Kelly Stafford admitted she wasn’t thrilled when she found out she had to put her sick children on a plane with the entire football team.

During the latest episode The morning after podcast, the wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford opened up about the “well-oiled machine” that was the elaborate travel process to get the entire team to Arizona in time for their playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday, January 13.

The game, originally scheduled to take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, was moved to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, due to the ongoing wildfires in LA.

According to Kelly, 34, the Rams organization provided a plane for the entire team and their families to travel together to the game. Her only major concern was that she was sick with the flu at the time, as were her four children. Kelly and her NFL player husband have four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 7, Harper, 6, and Tyler, 4.

“We were sick on that flight,” Kelly admitted during the Jan. 15 podcast. “There was a huge guilt factor for me, ‘Should we be on this plane right now because of everyone around us and everyone who has to play this game?’ ”

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Kelly contacted multiple people who would be on the flight ahead of time and got an unexpected response at such a crucial time in the season.

“They were like, ‘Get your … on that plane. We all have to be together,’ Kelly said. “That was so amazing for me to hear because it was like, ‘Should I stay with my kids?'”

Matthew, 36, was also adamant that the whole family be together at the game.

“Matthew said, ‘No, we’ll do whatever it takes. We all get on this plane. We will be together now,’ added Kelly.

While in Arizona, Kelly took to social media to offer a few updates on her children’s health.

On Saturday, Jan. 11, just two days before the playoff game, Kelly took to her Instagram Stories to share a photo captured by E! News at the time, her two daughters in a hospital bed. “Last night was a long one,” she wrote in the post. “Back to bed and sleep, everyone except Hunter. I feel like she drank Celsius.”

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“Before that, everyone was smiling to go with dad on his work trip,” she added. Kelly did not clarify why her children were hospitalized.

In another photo, released after his hospitalization, the Los Angeles Rams quarterback cuddled one of his daughters as they were photographed in the arena. “This girl ❤️,” Kelly wrote. “In the middle of throwing up in the bathroom, ‘Mom, are we still winning.’ She couldn’t wait to be in his arms.”

On Sunday, January 12, Kelly shared another update about her two daughters, posting a photo from a restaurant. “We found our happy place in Arizona,” she wrote, hinting that they still haven’t quite gotten over the flu. “I promise we’re happy, just still 🤕.”

She also later shared a picture of all four of her girls sleeping, writing: “No end. My poor little girls.”

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Kelly’s decision to travel to Arizona with the team and their families comes after she previously said she and the girls might leave their home to protect Matthew from their germs.

“Right now I believe I have the flu. Two of my daughters have the flu,” Kelly revealed on the Jan. 9 episode of the podcast. She said she “couldn’t think straight” because of it and even “passed out on the little bench in the suite” at a Jan. 5 game against the Seattle Seahawks.

During the podcast, Kelly said that Matthew “isn’t going to get any closer [her]” because of her illness, which she “totally” understands. “If all my kids have the flu, I don’t think we should be in this house with him,” she told listeners.

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“I know everyone thinks: ‘Why would you move? There are five of you and he is one.’ Because all his work stuff and his movie room and everything is here,” she continued. “So we’d just get out of here. I think that’s on the table now.”

Kelly added, “We have 105 fevers going through this house right now and we can’t let Matthew go into the playoffs with that,” she concluded. “So we’ll do our best not to let him.”

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