The following article mentions sexual misconduct allegations and eating disorders.
Katie Couricremains one of the most famous names in journalism.
Behind that famous grin lies immense tragedy.
“Real life the complications and contradictions, the messy parts remains outside the frame.”
Throughout the years, the host has endured multiple losses, health scares, and personal struggles.
The couple had two daughters together, Carrie and Ellie Monahan.
But their equanimity was broken when Jay was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the spring of 1997.
He had been experiencing stomach pains, but other than that didn’t have any symptoms.
In the aftermath of her loss, she co-founded Stand Up 2 Cancer.
Being so young, Ellie and Carrie Monahan never really knew their father.
When Monahan died, Couric struggled with single motherhood.
“I think life is more fun when you have someone in your life,” she reflected.
Couric’s cancer awareness work has also been instrumental in helping her daughters heal.
In an interview withPeople, she acknowledged that her perfectionism played into disordered eating.
But as her health declined, Couric realized that she was harming her body.
Accordingly, it was the death of Karen Carpenter that proved a major wake-up call.
“I really just started to understand how dangerous it was,” she reflected.
These days, in an effort to maintain her peace, she forgoes focusing on weight and numbers.
It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s hard to fight it."
She later sought justice by aiding journalists in exposing Fager’s alleged sexual misconduct.
But by that point, the aggressive cancer was far too advanced, having spread to her liver.
Despite undergoing various treatments, Emily got sicker.
“She was no match for the disease that would ultimately take over her body,” Katie wrote.
“I can barely think about her during those final, gut-wrenching days.
When Emily left us, I think a piece of my parents died too.”
“I felt sick and the room started to spin,” she wrote on herwebsite.
“Given my family’s history of cancer, why would I be spared?”
“My reaction went from ‘Why me?’
to ‘Why not me?’
But breast cancer that was a new one.”
Subsequently, she underwent surgery and doctors removed a 2.5 cm tumor from her breast.
She also received radiation and was prescribed cancer medication.
After being initially hesitant to tell her daughters, she eventually FaceTimed them.
Although she reassured her daughters that the tumor had been detected early, they were understandably worried.
“It’s just hard to deliver that news no matter how you do it.”
Accordingly, she urged others to undergo regular cancer screening.
“like get your annual mammogram.
I was six months late this time,” she wrote on her website.
“I shudder to think what might have happened if I had put it off longer.”
The revelations came as a shock to Katie Couric, who had worked with Lauer for 15 years.
“The whole thing has been very painful for me,” she toldPeople.
“The accounts I’ve read and heard have been disturbing, distressing and disorienting.”
She discussed the pair’s falling out in explicit detail in her memoir, publishing private texts they exchanged.
“I know Matt thinks I betrayed him, and that makes me sad,” she said.
Meanwhile her dad, John Couric, a journalist and PR exec, survived prostate cancer.
John was also diagnosed with the degenerative condition Parkinson’s disease.
John died in 2011, at the age of 90.
“Doris and I really were a couple, in a weird kind of way.”
But Doris appeared to be getting too close to Couric, something she found unsettling.
Eventually, the journalist fired her after she allegedly tried to break up her marriage.
However, in an interview with theDaily Mail, “Doris,” i.e.
“Katie said I couldn’t do it without someone like Nancy,” Poznek claimed.
“I was important to her, I took care of her.
Even Jeff Zucker (former Today executive producer), said as much.”
She also claimed that Couric ignored Monahan when he was suffering from gastrointestinal problems prior to his cancer diagnosis.
Couric revealed that they even had a smooch outside her apartment following their first date.
In a since deleted Instagram post (viaHello!
), Couric fondly remembered her late one-time ex.
Just the nicest guy."
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