In a clip of an interview with WNBA star Lisa Leslie, “CBS This Morning” anchor Gayle King asked about a 2003 sexual assault allegation against Kobe Bryant. Now King is responding to critics saying she’s “mortified” that moment was taken “out of context.”
Talking about her best friend’s recent troubles got Oprah Winfrey emotional on Friday. Winfrey started choking up during an appearance on “Today” with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager while talking about the backlash against her BFF, Gayle King, over a recent interview.”She is not doing well,” Winfrey said as she teared up. “She is not doing well because she now has death threats and has to now travel with security. She is feeling very much attacked.”
“I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry,” King fumed on Instagram. “Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview — totally taken out of context — and when you see it that way, it’s very jarring. It’s jarring to me. I didn’t even know anything about it.”
CBS swiftly promised “changes” to its “internal process” after its most high-profile anchor, Gayle King, publicly blasted the network over a clip that it used to promote one of her interviews.
On Thursday, King, co-anchor of “CBS This Morning,” posted a furious video message criticizing the network for using a segment from her interview with Kobe Bryant’s longtime friend, WNBA star Lisa Leslie, that focused only on the late athlete’s 2003 sexual assault case.
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