A candid approach. Kelly Ripa did not hold back about her personal or professional life in her new book, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.Before the memoir hit shelves on Tuesday, September 27, the actress opened up about the challenges of joining a live talk show. “I want people to understand that joining Live, from my perspective, was a terrifying venture.
It was entering into a work environment that I did not understand,” she told Haute Living that same month. “I think had I gone in there now, I would have been fully equipped to handle it, but back then, I was not equipped in any sense of the word.
And therefore, I did not protect myself the way I probably should have.”The former soap star continued: “It was a different time, back then.
It was a tabloid, journalistic, free-for-all, and there were systems in place there for a long time at the talk show that were not necessarily there to protect me.”According to Ripa, her relationship with former cohost Regis Philbin had its ups and downs over the years.
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