Author: Jayme Deerwester / Source: USA TODAY
On Friday, a week after he welcomed comedian , Real Time host Bill Maher hosted another celebrity in rehabilitation mode: Billy Bush, whose participation in President Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape cost him his job at NBC News and reputation.
The former Today host, who took the first steps toward resuming public life with a New York Times op-ed (in which he confirmed Trump’s comments) and a Late Show visit in December 2017, spoke of the self-help work he’d done.
He recounted the weekend of Trump’s inauguration, which he spent at a retreat in northern California where he was “like the guy from Ohio who knew too little“, which he described as “the beginning of just getting over it.”
He asked Maher, “Do you ever wonder what happens to you if it everything went away: the big career, the big show, the HBO, the whole thing?”
The host, who got in hot water last year for using the ‘n’ word on his show, retorted, “Oh, it’s flashed before my eyes many times.”
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