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    Gayle King Absent From 'CBS This Morning' After Shading Network Over Kobe Bryant Questions

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    People seemingly think that her eyebrow-raising absence has something to do with her trashing the network for releasing an ‘out-of-context’ clip that landed her in hot water.
    Feb 8, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Gayle King was nowhere to be seen in the Friday, February 7 episode of “CBS This Morning” amid the Kobe Bryant questions debacle. In her response to the backlash she received, the TV host appeared to blame the network for releasing an “out-of-context” clip that landed her in hot water.
    People seemingly thought that her eyebrow-raising absence had something to do with the trashing. It also came roughly 24 hours after King revealed she would have “a very intense discussion” with network executives over the handling of an interview about the legacy of the late NBA legend, who died in a helicopter crash last month.
    However, the network quickly set the record straight. Explaining in a statement, CBS said, “Gayle was off the show today because she had a long-standing commitment out of town.”
    King was hugely criticized over an interview with former WNBA star Lisa Leslie in which she asked her about a 2003 rape accusation. Right after the clip was published, everyone, including rappers Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Lil Boosie a.k.a. Boosie Badazz, came after her.
    The criticism apparently was serious that Oprah Winfrey recently shared that her friend has been getting death threats. “She is not doing well,” she said on “Hoda & Jenna & Friends” on Friday, tearing up. “She has now death treats and has to now travel with security and she’s feeling very much attacked. You know, Bill Cosby is tweeting from jail. She feels that she was put in a really terrible position.”
    King herself defended her line of questioning, stating in an Instagram video, “I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too. I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry.”
    “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,” she continued.
    King added, “We talked about that court case because that court case has also come up. And, I wanted to get Lisa’s take on it as a friend who knew him well, what she thought, where that should stand. It was very powerful when she looked me in the eye, as a member of the media, to say, ‘It’s time for the media to leave it alone and to back off.”

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      Gayle King 'Embarrassed' Amid Backlash Over Question About Kobe Bryant's Alleged Rape

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      The CBS anchor breaks her silence following the outrage over question about Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case, ‘if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too.’
      Feb 7, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Gayle King has hit out at executives at CBS over a promo clip of an interview with the late Kobe Bryant’s friend, former WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) star Lisa Leslie, about his rape trial.
      The NBA legend was killed in a helicopter crash at the age of 41 last month, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.
      He had previously been embroiled in a sexual assault case, which was dismissed as a criminal complaint but settled as a civil case in 2005, an episode which came up in the chat.
      “It’s been said that his legacy is complicated, because of a sexual assault charge that was dismissed in 2003, 2004. Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a WNBA player?” King asked.
      Leslie then replied, “It’s not complicated for me at all… I just never see – have ever seen him being the kind of person that would be – do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way. That’s just not the person that I know.”
      “But Lisa, you wouldn’t see it though. As his friend, you wouldn’t see it,” King responded.
      The snippet was part of a wider interview, but was the only part released online, with fans attacking King over the apparent ill-timed question.
      Taking to Instagram, she responded, “I’ve been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant, and I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too.”
      “I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry. 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.”
      Honouring Bryant as “warm and friendly,” the broadcaster insisted there will be “a very intense discussion” between her and the network.
      However, she also said she pushed the network to keep the segment in the interview, “because I thought it put a nice button on that part of the conversation.”

      She concluded, “I wanted you to hear exactly where I’m coming from and how I’m feeling, and to let everybody know that no disrespect intended … I thank you for listening.”

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