After Kobe Bryant Backlash, Gayle King Warns 'You Can’t Speak To Me The Way I Was Spoken To'

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Gayle King is finally sharing more about how she felt after the swift and severe backlash she faced after interviewing a friend of the late Kobe Bryant, Lisa Leslie, and questioning her about his past rape allegation.

While a guest on Oprah Winfrey’s Your Life In Vision: 2020 Focus Tour in Denver last weekend, the CBS Morning Show host said the entire ordeal was “a very painful situation.”  “I have moved on,” King said onstage, according to People. “Is there a scab?

Yeah. But I have moved on.” “I put on my game face and my big girl pants, because I never lost sight of who I was, what I believe I am, and my intention.

I’ve never lost sight of that. But it certainly was a learning curve, and it was very painful,” she continued. King sat down