CNN anchor Don Lemon offered an emotional tribute to former boss Jeff Zucker to open his Friday show.Zucker resigned as president from CNN Wednesday, blaming his departure on not disclosing his relationship with Allison Gollust, an EVP and CMO at the company.“It’s been a really tough day, today, and a tough few days for us here at CNN.
All week, really. I didn’t want to talk about until tonight,” Lemon told viewers. “So the truth is that we’re all heartbroken because we lost our leader here.
We lost a man who was the backbone, the glue and the spirit of this company, the man who I personally credit with change in my life, the man who believed in me when nobody else did.
He is the reason that you have a gay Black man with two hours of primetime, a show with my name on it, the only anchor of color in primetime on cable news, think about that.
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