In memoir, Katie Couric writes of feeling betrayed by Matt Lauer

Once the king and queen of morning television, Matt and Katie were regular “guests” in the homes of millions of Americans, delivering the news with friendly banter. Yet much can change in 20 years. Couric today is less visible after a series of jobs that didn’t quite work out, while Lauer was fired from the “Today” show in 2017 after stories about sexual misconduct emerged.

Couric’s book, which is out Oct. 26, recounts in raw terms her difficulty processing what she learned about the man she worked beside on most weekday mornings from 1997 to 2006.

“I know Matt thinks I betrayed him, and that makes me sad,” Couric writes. “But he betrayed me, too, by how he behaved behind closed doors at the show we both cared about so much.”

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