Gayle King has seemingly let the dust settle from all that backlash she received after referencing the 2003 rape allegations made against Kobe Bryant in a CBS This Morning interview with Lisa Leslie. Now, the TV anchor has opened up about the fiasco in a new discussion alongside her best friend Oprah.
"It rocked me, Oprah...I always try to operate from the 'do no harm,' that is always my intention," King, 65, said as the guest star of Oprah's final stop of her 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour. "In doing that story and doing that interview, the intention certainly didn't align with the impact and the fallout that happened from that. But what got to me was the vitriol and the vulgarity that was just unleashed at me in ways that I couldn't even understand."
She continue: "I think we can disagree politically, we can disagree socially...but I think humanity should prevail always. We can disagree, and you can be mad at me, but you can't speak to me the way that I was spoken to, and threatened."
Asked if she has moved on from the incident, which was mocked by Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and more, King paused for a moment and said that she simply had to find peace with it. "I have moved on. Is there a scab? Yeah," she confessed. "But I have moved on, I put on my game face and my big girl pants...because I've never lost sight of who I was, what I believe I am, and my intention. It certainly was a learning curve and it was very painful. But I think sometimes you have to go through that."
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