Chelsea Freeman talks about her husband and Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman’s winning performance in the 2024 World Series, and her family’s support behind the scenes.

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

“The craziest thing is now he’s injured, so he’s playing with a sprained ankle, he had a broken finger and all these other things, so our standards were very low,” Chelsea Freeman said of her husband. “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.”

In Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night, Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers captured their second World Series title in the past five years by defeating the Yankees 7-6 at Yankee Stadium.

After a historic season that included setting a home run record, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was named the series’ Most Valuable Player.

“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 come out on this note with all the things he’s doing is just absolutely incredible,” Chelsea Freeman said. Freddie’s World Series run.

In Game 1 of the series, Freddie Freeman hit the first-ever walk-off grand slam home run of the World Series.

Chelsea Freeman, mother of the three sons, said the couple’s eldest child, 8-year-old Charlie, who plays baseball himself, witnessed his father’s heroic moment in the Dodgers’ nursery.

“He said all the kids were looking around, huddled in front of the TV, thinking, ‘We’re about to lose.’ You know, I really hope not, but two outs in the tenth inning and we’re behind,” Chelsea Freeman said. “Freddie hit that ball, and (Charlie) said they all started going crazy, like jumping on him, like jumping up and down, like it was just the coolest moment ever.”

In addition to Freddie Freeman overcoming injuries this season, the Freeman family has also faced personal challenges at home. This summer, Chelsea shared that their young son Max had been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

In an August 1 Instagram post, she wrote that Max “deteriorated rapidly and became completely paralyzed,” but that they were able to get him to a hospital to “strengthen his lungs.”

She shared in the post 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 Stroke, Guillain-Barré 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, our neurologists, our doctors are all very happy with how well he is doing.”

She said the family has also 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 said. “We are a family and we know we can count on them for anything and they have our backs.”

She continued, “That’s why I think it’s so cool that Freddie is finally getting his shining moment and giving back to them and the fans and the Dodgers in general, because they’ve just been absolutely incredible to us throughout this whole process.”

Before the Dodgers’ victory Wednesday, Chelsea Freeman said that considering everything her family has been through, winning this World Series with the Dodgers would be a fairytale ending to the season.

“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,” she said.