Speaking of scary things, how awful was it being perceived as Jane Pauleys usurper?
A. Well , to me that’s many, many chapters ago. I did learn a lot. The trouble was NBC had put a gag order on me. Nobody was telling them any other version of the story. So the natural human inclination was to assume most of what you read in the newspapers was correct. And a lot of the story was wrong, and the hardest thing for me was to be in this very uncomfortable and unfamiliar position of being told to keep your mouth shut. Q. Were you surprised to find yourself depressed? I mean you’d had a kind of charmed life up until then. A. Well, look, the press had called me the golden girl. I started working in Atlanta, Georgia, as a general assignment reporter when I was still in college. I interviewed the president of the United States [Jimmy Carter] when I was 19 years old. You bet I’ve had a charmed life. I had a very fortunate career Q. How did you know you were seriously depressed? A. I didn’t get dressed. I didn’t leave the house. I often didn’t take a shower. My bathrobe was litera
