And I tried to understand why he behaved the way he did - and why he was so reckless and callous and honestly abusive to other women,” she said. “What I realized is there was the side of Matt I never really knew. Former “Today” show host Katie Couric ripped into Matt Lauer, saying the things he did were “disgusting.” Peter Kramer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images “And it was really devastating, but also disgusting,” she seethed. She “did some of my own reporting” and “really tried to excavate what had been going on.” “As I got more information and learned what was going on behind the scenes, it was really upsetting and disturbing,” she said. Former “Today” show host Katie Couric returned on October 19, 2021, to promote her new book about working on the show. “It took me a long time to process what was going on, because the side of Matt I knew was the man I think you all knew: He was kind and generous and considerate, a good colleague,” she recalled. She complained Tuesday that it had been “really, really hard” when the disturbing accusations emerged, admitting she initially found them too hard to believe. She fully ripped into him after earlier being accused of being too soft and defensive when her then-beloved pal started getting accused of sexual misconduct, leading to him getting booted in November 2017. Katie Couric made an awkward return to the “Today” show Tuesday - ripping her disgraced former co-host Matt Lauer as “disgusting” and “abusive.”Ĭouric, 64, smiled nervously as Savannah Guthrie quizzed her about her new book’s “snark” and “brutally honest” put-downs, including attacks on former colleagues on the NBC morning show that she was on for 15 years.Ĭouric insisted the attacks have “been wildly misrepresented” - except for those against Lauer, who’d been her TV partner there for nine years.

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