Katie Couric Mocks Many In Memoir

“Going There,” Katie Couric’s tell-all memoir, has gotten some people complaining that the 64-year-old TV personality and producer went full scorched earth, leaving no colleague, lover or famous friend un-torched. She mocks and puts down everyone — from celebs like Martha Stewart and Prince Harry to industry colleagues like Deborah Norville and the late Larry King, reports the NY Post.

In the book, Couric blasts Stewart — whom the news anchor had previously roasted with a poem at a 1996 awards ceremony — saying she required “some healthy humbling (prison will do that … ) to develop a sense of humor,” according to a Daily Mail report on the manuscript of the more than 500 page-long book, which is due out next month. 

She also ripped Norville — whom Couric replaced on “Today” in 1991 — for alienating viewers with her “relentless perfection.”

When Couric met Prince Harry at a polo match in Brazil — apparently during his “wild-oats sowing phase” — the stench of cigarettes and alcohol seemed to, as she writes, “ooze from every pore” in his body.

Katie Couric mocked Martha Stewart’s prison sentence while describing how she developed “a sense of humor.”

As for King, who died in January 2021 at age 87, Couric suggests he was a creep. After going out for an Italian dinner with the TV legend — who was 24 years her senior — the pair went back to King’s apartment, where, she writes, he made a “lunge” for her that reportedly involved his tongue and hands while she sat on the sofa.

“When I like, I really like,” he dejectedly told her after she pushed him off, Couric recounts in the book. 

Ex-beau Werner, she details, was a “textbook narcissist” who dumped her via email after he “love bombed” her with gifts. 

The book comes several years after Couric’s last major gig, as Yahoo’s Global News Anchor, ended in 2017. Before her stint at ABC News, which lasted from 2011 to 2014, she landed a $15 million gig at CBS Evening News, where she worked as an anchor and managing editor from 2006 to 2011. The move, she writes, was “unwinnable,” and left her feeling “embattled, defensive, misunderstood.”