Gayle King furious with CBS for viral interview clip about Kobe Bryant rape case
Gayle King woke up so incensed with CBS over a viral clip of her asking Kobe Bryant’s good friend and former WNBA star, Lisa Leslie, about his rape trial, that she had to get it off of her chest before going on-air on Thursday. “I’ve been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant, and I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too,” she said in an Instagram video. “I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry. Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview — totally taken out of context — and when you see it that way, it’s very jarring. It’s jarring to me. I didn’t even know anything about it.” In the clip, King addressed Bryant’sual assault case, which was settled in 2005. “It’s been said that his legacy is complicated, because of aual assault charge that was dismissed in 2003, 2004. Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a