What was the scariest thing about going to jail for an “Inside Edition” report?
A. Being there. Really and truly the scariest thing was that most of the women in the cell block with me were not mentally stable. And because of that you never knew. If they weren’t a little bit ziggy before they came into jail, I think they certainly became that during their incarceration. They were the hardest, toughest bunch of women I’d ever laid eyes on. Q. Speaking of scary things, how awful was it being perceived as Jane Pauley’s 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, lo
