Jessie James Decker was seeing red one New Year’s Eve.
Right before the 2020 broadcast of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” the country singer was given a COVID test.
The results were fine, but her nose was not.
“I have a very sensitive Sicilian nose, and if I even get whacked in the nose slightly, you’re going to get a nosebleed. And I told the guy, ‘Please don’t jam it up there. I will get a nosebleed,’” explained the northern Italian native, whose mother’s side hails from Corleone, Sicily.
“Sure enough, he was just doing his job, but I had a nosebleed. I mean, blood was just pouring out of my nose, and it was going live in like 30 seconds,” continued Decker, 34, who will be “Rockin’ Eve’s” Powerball co-host this year, her fourth time doing the gig.
The mom of three hosts Christmas Day at their home in Nashville, and said her husband, former Jets’ wide receiver Eric Decker, played Santa’s helper this season by recruiting his football friends for assists with their seven-year-old son Eric Jr.’s Christmas list.
The youngster asked for jerseys signed by his favorite NFL players, and the former pro athlete was able to run some interference.
“I think he wants Cooper Kupp and … probably Brady,” she said. “I don’t think my son realizes how spoiled he is that his dad can actually text these people and get these things done. I’m like, ‘This is not a real world.’”
Her oldest, Vivianne, 8, wants a new bookshelf for all of her gymnastics trophies, and her youngest son, 4-year-old Forrest, would like a Michael Jackson costume.
The children will not be with her as she travels to New York to prepare for the ABC festivities — which the Times Square Alliance estimates will welcome 1 million revelers and last year hit 24.2 million at-home viewers.
“They stay back. It’s just too late. It’s too hard, you know, they’re little,” she said. “So they stay back and they watch Mommy, and they all get excited.”
The Kittenish clothing line founder is known to “get butterflies” being in the Big Apple.
When Eric played for the Jets, from 2014 to 2016, they lived in Morristown, New Jersey and Jessie, who grew up in Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia, felt more at home in the tri-state area.
“I’m a Southern girl, but I’ve always felt very loud and aggressive … I blurt things out and say what’s on my mind,” said Decker, who hopes to have time to dine at Carbone and Quality Italian while in town. “And I’ve always offended everyone around me. “
But when she got here, she fit right in.
“Nobody was ever offended,” she said. “I felt heard.”