Most of them have been fired at this point,' she said 'I think the people who I called out deserve to be called out. 'The feedback I've gotten from the book has been so positive from people who've actually read it.' 'So that was disappointing at first, honestly, because I think I felt so enormously proud of the book and how I thought it was very smart and thoughtful and funny and obviously very sad in places, but kind of to have a twisted early on was a bummer for me,' she said. 'And, you know, it was cheeky, some might say snarky, and I had some funny lines here and there.'Ĭouric wasn't happy that there was such a negative reaction, and that some people focused on 'cherry-picked' excerpts. Most of them have been fired at this point. It's very self-reflective, very self-critical,' she explained.

'I think the book is honest, but I don't think it's mean-spirited at all. Published: 20:56 BST, 16 February 2022 | Updated: 20:56 BST, 16 February 2022Ĭouric didn't pull punches in the book, Going There, which came out in October 2021Ĭouric didn't pull punches in the book, which was met with mixed reactions - though she insists that people who actually read the memoir, and not just excerpts, have had a positive response.

Katie claimed the negative reviewers were just 'cherry-picking' certain excerpts, which was 'disappointing' because she 'felt so enormously proud of the book'.

Couric chose not to be 'super judgey about Matt' despite her 'pretty strong' reaction and instead illustrated how she processed the allegations.She described him as 'talented' but said she was 'disappointed' to learn about the sexual abuse allegations against him.

Couric admitted it was hard to write about Lauer, with whom she cohosted Today for nine years, and she wanted 'to convey why I really enjoyed working with him'.She said 'the people who I called out deserve to be called out,' adding that 'most of them have been fired at this point'.In a new interview, she called the book 'honest' and 'snarky' but not 'mean-spirited'.In her 2021 memoir Going There, Couric, 65, reflected on her decades-long career, blasting several of her colleagues.Katie Couric insists her memoir wasn't 'mean-spirited' and she only called out people who 'deserved it' - but admits she tried to show disgraced colleague Matt Lauer as 'a full human being'

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