Julie Chen Moonves Reveals How She & ‘The Talk’ Co-star Leah Remini ‘Buried the Hatchet’ After Their Feud

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Julie Chen Moonves is spilling all in her new audiobook, But First, God. The Big Brother host, 53, tells behind-the-scenes particulars about her time co-hosting The Talk and her sudden exit in 2018. Julie reveals how her co-hosts, together with Leah Remini, complained about her whereas she went on trip.
“A few my co-hosts, whereas I used to be away, went to the community and mentioned, ‘We can’t work with Julie anymore. She’s too uptight. She’s not one in every of us. If she stays, we go.’ And they ended up leaving and I ended up staying,” Julie mentioned, in accordance with Variety. “But what was so hurtful and difficult about this time was that one of many individuals who left was somebody who I turned like in a single day greatest buddies with after engaged on The Talk. And that was Leah Remini. We have been buddies. We have been like occurring trip collectively, and when she went to the community with this request, I felt betrayed.”
Leah Remini, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, and Sara Gilbert in 2010. (Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock)
Leah, 53, left The Talk in 2011 after only one season. Julie remained a co-host till 2018 when she was compelled to depart the present within the wake of husband Les Moonves’ sexual misconduct scandal. Les, the previous chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, was accused of sexual misconduct by greater than a dozen ladies swimsuit in 2018. He denied the allegations.
Julie admitted that she “iced” Leah out for nearly a decade till “God entered the image huge time.” When Julie attended a celebration the place Leah’s husband, Angelo Pagan, was performing, she went as much as Angelo and requested for Leah’s quantity.
“If I didn’t have Jesus in my life at that time, I wouldn’t have gone out of my technique to hunt him down and say hiya,” Julie defined. “I do know God says to forgive. So I referred to as her, she answered. We laughed. We buried the hatchet. And as we speak we’re most likely nearer than ever. Leah did attempt to apologize to me a yr after our friendship blew up, however I used to be too hard-hearted to simply accept it. Without religion in my life, I didn’t perceive the significance of forgiveness, however the Bible tells us very clearly to forgive each other.”
Julie Chen and Les Moonves in 2017. (Rob Latour/Shutterstock)
One day earlier than her audiobook’s launch, Julie revealed on Good Morning America that it wasn’t her resolution to depart The Talk. “That was a tough time,” she mentioned. “I felt stabbed within the again. I used to be, you already know.” In But First, God, Julie famous that she felt like she was “collateral harm” throughout Les’ scandal and the fallout at CBS. However, she has remained the host of Big Brother on CBS by all of it.

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