- Katie Couric said CNN colleagues "turned a blind eye" to Jeff Zucker's "inappropriate behavior."
- Couric said the relationship between Zucker and Allison Gollust made her "uncomfortable."
- She also said the resignation of her former boss took her by surprise.
Katie Couric said Thursday that CNN colleagues ignored the "inappropriate" behavior of its recently ousted president, Jeff Zucker.
"It seems their colleagues and the media at large turned a blind eye to inappropriate behavior," she said in a statement following Zucker's resignation from the television powerhouse on Wednesday.
"I worked with Jeff Zucker for many years at NBC and later on my talk show," she wrote of her former boss. "He was a talented and energetic producer. His resignation took me by surprise."
Zucker, who led the cable news giant for nearly a decade, resigned abruptly this week after his relationship with CNN executive vice president and chief marketing officer Allison Gollust was uncovered as part of the network's investigation into anchor Chris Cuomo.
"I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn't. I was wrong," he wrote in a statement. "As a result, I am resigning today."
Couric previously had mentioned Zucker's relationship with his fellow network executive in her 2021 memoir, "Going There."
Couric wrote that Gollust worked with Zucker at NBC and that the pair were "joined at the hip," Insider's Áine Cain reported, and that she was uncomfortable with the bond between the two.
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"I've also known Allison Gollust since my days at the TODAY show," Couric said in the statement. "I've wondered about the nature of their relationship, but I do know, as I wrote in my memoir Going There, that it made me uncomfortable."
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