{"id":82930,"date":"2020-10-06T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/billy-bush-felt-betrayed-by-matt-lauer-after-nbc-firing\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:08:45","slug":"billy-bush-felt-betrayed-by-matt-lauer-after-nbc-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/billy-bush-felt-betrayed-by-matt-lauer-after-nbc-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"#Billy Bush felt betrayed by Matt Lauer after NBC firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Billy Bush felt betrayed by Matt Lauer after NBC firing<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5396412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-5396412 lazyload\" alt=\"Billy Bush in Men's Health\" width=\"650\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-mens-health.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-mens-health.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-mens-health.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-mens-health.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=650 650w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-mens-health.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1300 1300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Billy Bush in Men\u2019s Health<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Celeste Sloman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Billy Bush felt betrayed by Matt Lauer when Bush was fired by NBC in 2016 \u2014 after which he spent months drinking heavily, too \u201cparalyzed\u201d to get off his couch and unable to stop crying.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/entertainment\/a34210708\/billy-bush-now-trump-access-hollywood\/\">In a candid interview with Men\u2019s Health<\/a>, Bush, 48, recalls being axed from the \u201cToday\u201d show after just two months on the job for his role in the infamous \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d outtake with Donald Trump from 11 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>After the tape circulated, Bush was ready to apologize on-air and believed he had Lauer\u2019s support. Bush now says of his then-co-anchor, \u201cThat he didn\u2019t fight for me is so deeply hurtful because I\u2019ve known him for absolutely ever.\u201d (Men\u2019s Health reports that Lauer didn\u2019t comment.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5396540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-5396540 lazyload\" alt=\"Billy Bush and Matt Lauer\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Billy Bush and Matt Lauer<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images; Splash <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bush instead learned he was canned when he tried to get a car to the airport before flying back to New York. The driver who was meant to take him said, \u201cSorry, Mr. Bush. They just canceled the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5396541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img class=\"size-nypost-inline-default wp-image-5396541 lazyload\" alt=\"Billy Bush and Matt Lauer on the &quot;Today&quot; show in 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/billy-bush-lauer-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Billy Bush and Matt Lauer on the \u201cToday\u201d show in 2016<\/span><span class=\"credit\">NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having recently separated from his wife, Bush holed up alone in an apartment drinking too much whiskey, the piece reports. Four months into the situation, he said he told his brother, \u201cI\u2019m paralyzed. I can\u2019t get off my couch. I can\u2019t stop crying. I can\u2019t stop thinking terrible thoughts of what I would want to do to myself if I didn\u2019t have children \u2026 Help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then went for a weeklong treatment called the Hoffman Process.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to \u201cExtra\u201d last year, Bush says he looks back at himself in the tape and sees a \u201clittle suck-up cog,\u201d \u201clittle suck-up Billy Bush,\u201d \u201cthe fluffer.\u201d But he admits he wouldn\u2019t do it again differently: \u201cI\u2019m not going to give [you] a pandering answer. I\u2019m sorry. I can\u2019t,\u201d he told writer Anna Peele.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush scion \u2014 who says that before his NBC firing, \u201cnothing bad ever h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to me\u201d \u2014 now realizes that \u201clife isn\u2019t fair,\u201d and that getting canned \u201cwas important for my development \u2026 I needed to have my ass handed to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, he even had dinner with Lauer, who was booted from NBC that year.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/10\/06\/billy-bush-felt-betrayed-by-matt-lauer-after-nbc-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Billy Bush felt betrayed by Matt Lauer after NBC firing&#8221; Billy Bush in Men\u2019s HealthCeleste Sloman Billy Bush felt betrayed by Matt Lauer when Bush was fired by NBC in 2016 \u2014 after which he spent months drinking heavily, too \u201cparalyzed\u201d to get off his couch and unable to stop crying. 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