Chris Cuomo Says Getting Fired Had Him Feeling Like He Was 'Going To Kill Everybody, Including Myself'
16.02.2023 - 04:33
/ perezhilton.com
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Chris Cuomo is opening up about his mental health struggles since getting fired from CNN.
Back in 2021, the Cuomo Prime Time host was fired “immediately” from his job just days after an investigation began to look into his involvement with aiding his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, against sexual harassment claims. According to the New York Times in December 2021, attorney Debra Katz — who represents Andrew’s accuser Charlotte Bennett — contacted CNN about another client with accusations against Chris.
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Per the report, it was unclear if the woman’s allegations influenced the company’s decision to let the journalist go at the time. However, a spokesperson for CNN confessed in a statement to Deadline later that week the accusation may have had something to do with it, saying:
Soon after, Chris’ rep denied it, calling the termination “unwarranted”:
Last year Chris set out to sue the news network for wrongful termination, seeking as much as $60 million in damages, and that case is believed to be ongoing. But now, on Wednesday’s episode of Anthony Scaramucci‘s Open Book podcast, we’re getting a glimpse into what really was going on in the journalist’s head at the time of the scandal. Candidly, he explained he was in a very bad mental state:
Whoa.
Luckily, the 52-year-old said he put his best foot forward and began going to therapy after he was “s**t canned” by his bosses. He even admitted to making “a lot of mistakes”:
Since leaving CNN, the journalist has found a home at NewsNation (with soon-to-be coworkers Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes), but he says he’s embarrassed that he doesn’t get the