Couric admits to being very worried about how her former medium did after he was fired and she texted him support words: “Matt, I am crushed. I love you and care about you deeply. I’m here. Let me know if you want to talk. It will be better days ahead.”
He answered with a kissemoji, she shares.
When more Lurid reported disturbing details about Lauer’s behavior in the coming weeks, she was still worried about Lauer and his family. Molner, who had been golf friends with Lauer, said she should meet him at home in East Hampton if she was so worried, “but I didn’t know what to say,” she reminds. “If I’m completely honest, I was worried about my reputation.”
“If I was discovered there, it may look like I condone the behavior,” she reminds to think and noticed that she could have visited in the middle of the night, a scenario that played out The morning show between the co -anchors played by Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell after being accused of sexual behavior. “I was confused and simply not ready to take the role of sympathetic friend and colleague yet.”
In December 2017, Addie Collins Zinone– As a journalist student had reached Couric, shaded her one day, got an internship and was then hired as a production assistant –claimed she had a month -long deal with Lauer 2000. Couric texted Lauer to let her know that she was thinking about him. (She writes that she was enough for Zinone 2019 and they met in LA, where the then married mother of two told Couric that her business with Lauer was a consensus but she didn’t really feel that she could say no. Zinone told her she didn’t go to her for help, Couric writes, because she felt shame.)
In its first interview that addresses The Scandal, published January 13, 2018, Couric told People that she found all the charges “disturbing, worrying and disoriented.” She said: “I had no idea that this was going on during my term or after I left. I think I speak for many of my former colleagues when I say this was not dull as we knew.”
Nowadays they no longer speak and she doubts that they will come again. She writes, “I know Matt thinks I betrayed him, and it makes me sad. But he also betrayed me by how he behaved behind closed doors at the exhibition that we both cared for so much.”
