Ann Curry 's History With Matt Lauer and the Today Show
Ann Curry
Ann Curry  will soon make  her  return to television with  her  new PBS program We’ll Meet Again  but in interviews promoting the show   she  is being asked to look backwards — to  her  exit from the Today show nearly six years ago.
 Curry  spent 15 years with NBC’s morning show  and from 2011 to 2012  she  served as co-anchor alongside Matt Lauer.
 Her  tearful on-air announcement that  she  was leaving is remembered as a landmark moment in morning show television. NBC has long said the decision was based on ratings  and the network declined to comment on Wednesday. But fans and journalists like then-New York Times media critic Brian Stelter  who detailed the tension between Lauer and  Curry  in  his  2013 book “Top of the Morning ” believe Lauer had something to do with her departure.
In an interview on CBS This Morning on Wednesday  co-anchor Gayle King said to  Curry   “It was viewed that a very powerful man  meaning Matt Lauer  derailed your career.”  Curry —  after joking  “Don’t worry  I’m not going to start crying” — responded  “You should ask someone else  I’m not the one to ask about that … I don’t know what was all behind it. I do know that it hurt like hell.”
Asked if she thought Lauer – who was fired in November over claims of sexual misconduct – abused his power   Curry  said  “I’m trying to do no harm in these conversations. I can tell you that I am not surprised by the allegations.”
When King asked  Curry  whether  she  “heard things” or “knew things” while  she  was at NBC   Curry  responded: “I’m trying not to hurt people and I know what it’s like to be publicly humiliated. I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated  and I don’t want to cause that kind of pain to somebody else.
After Lauer’s firing  some of  Curry’s  fans took to social media to speculate how she felt about the news. The meme “Somewhere Ann Curry” imagined the former co-anchor greeting the news in various ways  for instance  “Somewhere Ann Curry is breaking out that champagne.”
[TGT]will soon make  [TGT]  return to television with  [TGT]  new PBS program We’ll Meet Again  but in interviews promoting the show   [TGT]  is being asked to look backwards — to  [TGT]  exit from the Today show nearly six years ago.
 [TGT]spent 15 years with NBC’s morning show  and from 2011 to 2012  [TGT]  served as co-anchor alongside Matt Lauer.
 [TGT]  tearful on-air announcement that  [TGT]  was leaving is remembered as a landmark moment in morning show television. NBC has long said the decision was based on ratings  and the network declined to comment on Wednesday. But fans and journalists like then-New York Times media critic Brian Stelter  who detailed the tension between Lauer and  Curry  in  his  2013 book “Top of the Morning ” believe Lauer had something to do with [TGT] departure.
In an interview on CBS This Morning on Wednesday  co-anchor Gayle King said to  Curry   “It was viewed that a very powerful man  meaning Matt Lauer  derailed your career.”  Curry —  after joking  “Don’t worry  I’m not going to start crying” — responded  “You should ask someone else  I’m not the one to ask about that … I don’t know what was all behind it. I do know that it hurt like hell.”
Asked if she thought Lauer – who was fired in November over claims of sexual misconduct – abused his power   Curry  said  “I’m trying to do no harm in these conversations. I can tell you that I am not surprised by the allegations.”
When King asked  Curry  whether  she  “heard things” or “knew things” while  she  was at NBC   Curry  responded: “I’m trying not to hurt people and I know what it’s like to be publicly humiliated. I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated  and I don’t want to cause that kind of pain to somebody else.
After Lauer’s firing  some of  Curry’s  fans took to social media to speculate how she felt about the news. The meme “Somewhere Ann Curry” imagined the former co-anchor greeting the news in various ways  for instance  “Somewhere Ann Curry is breaking out that champagne.”