She says Sawyer was everything she wasn’t – tall, blonde, with a voice “full of money”. “I loved that I was getting under Diane’s skin,” she writes. Couric says that Sawyer was so desperate to beat her in the morning TV ratings wars that she declared: “That woman must be stopped.” She holds her most scathing criticism for the ABC Good Morning America anchor Diane Sawyer. But she also reveals some of the appalling behavior of her peers, including the late CNN interviewer Larry King, who, she writes, made a “lunge” for her across a sofa. Little, Brown and Company, Couric’s publisher, told the outlet that the book is “heartfelt, hilarious and very honest”.Īcross 500 pages, Couric, 64, is reported to have a put-down for almost everyone, from Martha Stewart – “some healthy humbling (prison will do that …) to develop a sense of humor” Prince Harry – cigarettes and alcohol seem to “ooze from every pore” industry colleagues like Deborah Norville – “relentless perfection”. According to the New York Post, which obtained a copy of her tell-all memoir Going There, which is scheduled for release later this month. Couric takes aim at former colleagues, lovers, friends and professional frenemies in harsh terms, throwing off the sexist persona of the perky girl-next-door forced on her for decades.Ĭouric’s list of grievances is as long as it explicit.
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