Matt Lauer tightens inner circle after getting 'semi-slammed' by Katie Couric in her 2021 memoir

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Matt Lauer has tightened his inner circle five years after he was fired from the Today show and 'semi-slammed' by his former Today co-host Katie Couric in her memoir.

The 64-year-old former NBC News star has 'kind of withdrawn from several friendships in the last year', particularly after Couric released her 2021 memoir Going There, a source told People in an article on Monday.'He was really upset by Katie Couric's book.

She shared their private text messages and she semi-slammed him. It made him lose trust,' the insider said. Tight circle: Matt Lauer, shown in November 2017, has tightened his inner circle five years after he was fired from the Today show and 'semi-slammed' by his former Today co-host Katie Couric in her memoirThe source added that Lauer's 'level of trust' has diminished in large part due to Couric's book and 'because talking to people from his past is painful.'Lauer was described by the insider as a 'semi-empty nester, not working' in 'transitional time' with his son Jack, 21, daughter Romy, 19, who are both in college, and his 16-year-old son Thrijs.

Couric and Lauer were co-hosts of NBC's flagship morning program Today from 1997 to 2006.Lauer was fired by NBC in 2017, just two days after an unidentified female colleague accused him of inappropriate behavior.