“I don’t think people knew what they were doing and getting themselves into.”
“I think the whole thing was handled really horribly,” Chen Moonves said.
“It was very sad to see.”
Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne.D Dipasupil/Getty Images
Cohen replied, “It’s a show calledThe Talk.
I thought they should’ve gone on and talked it out.”
“Yes,” Chen Moonves said in response.
“I don’t think people knew what they were doing and getting themselves into.
The whole thing was a horrible mess.
It was [like] watching a train wreck.”
Chen Moonves said the last time she spoke with Osbourne was about eight months before her departure.
Chen Moonves and Osbourne had been cohosts of the CBS daytime talk show since it launched in 2010.
Osbourne departed in 2021 after aheated on-air exchange with cohost Sheryl Underwoodover Morgan’s incendiary remarks about Markle.
She recently toldGood Morning Americathat she wasforced out in the wake of the allegationsagainst her husband.
“I felt stabbed in the back,” she said.
