Chris Cuomo says his 2021 firing from CNN “knocked me sideways.”
The TV information anchor, who now hosts the NewsNation present Cuomo, appeared on Anthony Scaramucci’s podcast Open Book and mentioned his headline-making axing after it was found the extent to which he suggested his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, amid his sexual misconduct scandal. The youthful Cuomo credited therapy for serving to him work through it, and stated he’ll be seeing through his $125 million arbitration demand from CNN.
“This is really knocked me sideways,” he admitted. “One of the things I like to say — maybe too much — is how damaging this was to me personally. And I know that a lot of people don’t give a s***. That’s OK. I’m not saying it because I care what you think. I’m saying it because it’s true.”
He stated he needed to type through “the pain and the hurt and the embarrassment and the shame and the fear” together with his therapist.
Cuomo admitted, “I make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad reason. I’m very flawed. There’s damage. There’s damage that’s relatable to people. There’s damage that’s unrelatable to people that I have to deal with. That I try to deal with. That I do the work on. I still fail. And I have learned to accept it. I had to accept because I was gonna kill everybody, including myself. Things can consume you… I really had to fight against that because … I got too many people counting on me.”
The father of three referred to his firing from the community, after an preliminary suspension, as being “s***-canned” throughout the interview. He stated what he is realized is that, “When things are good, stop and smell the roses [because eventually] you will step in s***. You will.” He stated “bad things are going to come [up] and it’s up to you how you handle them.”
He added, “If you want to be in [the] public [eye and] want to take swings, you got to be ready to deal with how it is when you get hit.”
Cuomo additionally talked about how he predicted his brother’s fall from grace. The governor resigned in August 2021 amid sexual harassment allegations. He recalled telling him — as his star rose amid the COVID pandemic just for it to cosmically burst amid scandal — what goes up should come down.
“It was always a clock ticking,” he stated. “I saw what was gonna happening and I was worried about him personally.”
He added, “The media builds up and tears down… It is great to see a big name go down.”
Cuomo talked in regards to the viewers of his new NewsNation present being “small” and how that differs from having the No. 1 CNN present. He known as it “kind of embarrassing.”
He additionally spoke about his arbitration submitting in opposition to CNN for $125 million over his “unlawful termination.”
“I believe that [my CNN job] was taken. I believe wrongly,” he stated. “I will litigate that. I am not going to bitch about it in the press. I’m not going to badmouth CNN because I love the people there and I wish ’em well and it’s, I believe, the best news organization in the world. But I don’t like how I was fired. I’ll litigate that. That’s arbitration and I’m seeing that through.”
He additionally talked about how he is suing over the e book he was writing, Deep Denial, being scrapped by William Morrow imprint Custom House amid his CNN firing.
“My publisher went sideways with me because I got fired [from CNN] and now I’m in litigation there trying to figure this out because it’s unacceptable,” he stated.
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