- Julie Chen is a television personality
- She is known mostly for hosting 'Big Brother'
- THIS is what she said about leaving 'The Talk'
Julie Chen says leaving 'The Talk' was not her choice. For many her show exit was very unexpected, and it seems it was for her too. The former television host appeared on 'Good Morning America' to promote her new book, 'But First, God,' where she said she was pressured to step down as co-host of 'The Talk' in 2018 after her husband, former chairman of CBS, Les Moonves, was accused of sexual misconduct. "That was a hard time," she said. "I felt stabbed in the back. I was."
Julie felt blind-sighted
She added, "I don’t know if I could have reconciled if I didn’t have God in my life." Since then, Julie has been on her own healing journey which has seen her make a lot of changes to her life. Chen co-hosted 'The Talk' for eight years, stating at the time of her departure that she was exiting the show to "spend more time at home with my husband and our young son." Just a few days prior, her husband was forced out as chief executive of CBS amid sexual misconduct allegations he denied.
The explosive allegations shook the network and all of Hollywood. She publicly defended her husband and began using his name professionally following the controversy. "Leslie is a good man and a loving father, devoted husband and inspiring corporate leader," she wrote in a statement on Twitter at the time. "He has always been a kind, decent and moral human being."
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And now, Julie is speaking out about her departure from the show for the first time in her new book, which details her spiritual path in recent years.
"Julie Chen before she found God was self-absorbed, career-minded, vain, gossipy, fun to be with, but probably kind of a shallow person,” she said. "Julie Chen Moonves, who now knows the Lord, is someone who wants to help others; who wants to look at everyone with a soft heart."
In her book, she writes that one of the hardest parts of the controversy was having to tell their son, Charlie about the claims. "I told him there were reports that were false about our family," Chen Moonves recalled to GMA. "I kept it simple. I said, ‘If you ever hear anything or read anything, you come to us first. You know this family, you know who we are. Don’t let anyone shake that.'"
Julie still hosts 'Big Brother' on CBS, and so her TV career is still going strong.
