According to the Daily Mail Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo dramatically revealed he thought about ‘kill(ing) everybody, including myself,’ in the aftermath of his ousting from CNN.
The current NewsNation anchor was given the boot in late 2021 for dolling out advice to his brother, the then-Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, as he battled a sexual misconduct scandal.
It was also revealed that Chris used his media connections and contacts to check on stories in the pipeline about his brother and trafficked the information back to the governor’s operatives.
Cuomo shared his struggle on ‘Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci,’ the podcast hosted by the former White House communications director whose tenure at the podium lasted all of a week and a half.
‘I had to accept [the CNN termination] because I was going to kill everybody, including myself. Things can consume you,’ he said.
He added: ‘Italians are so passionate and I really had to fight against that because… I got too many people counting on me.’
The on-air journalist, who is now back behind a desk, said he ‘makes a lot of mistakes’ and began seeing a therapist after being ‘s**t-canned’ by the CNN higher-ups.
‘There is damage that is relatable, there is damage that is unrelatable to people that I have to deal with, that I am working on,’ he said.
Despite Cuomo telling Scaramucci that he’s working on himself, his short temper is still reportedly calling the shots at his new NewsNation gig, at which he has significantly fewer eyeballs on him than at CNN.
‘Cuomo,’ the name of his show, is bringing in fewer than 100,000 viewers a night, according to the New York Post. Less than a tenth of his million-strong audience at CNN.
He said that even though he wasn’t ‘the big name’ at CNN, his show did well ‘because I was giving people what they needed in that moment.’
Now, however, he said he is aware his audience is ‘small’ and ‘people don’t want to watch.
‘It’s hard to keep perspective on that because it’s kind of embarrassing,’ he told Scaramucci. ‘I will never be [number 1] again.’
‘I believe that was taken, I believe wrongly. I will litigate that. I am not going to b***h about it in the press,’ he said.
The younger Cuomo is suing CNN for more than $60million over his abrupt firing. He is also believed to be in litigation with HarperCollins, the publisher of his book, Deep Denial, which was canceled after his firing.
