As a journalist, she knows to keep her words tied to the subject matter, and she’s spent the past five years largely avoiding it altogether, possibly thinking that nothing good would come to her professional career by talking it out.
Understandably, Ann Curry didn’t draw out any barbed blades when explaining her mindset at the time of her uncomfortable final days as part of the Today staff.
(She’d been with the show since 1997, and remained a part of the NBC News team until 2015.)
But now that the TV news industry has seen some of its former icons take falls over sexual misconduct allegations — with the firing of Today’s Matt Lauer being one of the most noteworthy instances — Curry apparently feels this was the ideal time to come clean.