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Brian Williams thought "brain tumor" was behind gaffes
On Feb. 4, the night that Williams would apologize for saying that he had been riding in a helicopter that came under fire, he and NBC News president Deborah Turness were exchanging emails about the wording of his apology when she and other executives became frustrated with what Williams was (and was not) saying, according to Vanity Fair.
"He couldn’t say the words ‘I lied,’ ” an NBC insider told the magazine. “We could not force his mouth to form the words ‘I lied.’ He couldn’t explain what had happened. [He said,] ‘Did something happen to [my] head? Maybe I had a brain tumor or something in my head?’ He just didn’t know. We just didn’t know. We had no clear sense of what had happened. We got the best [apology] we could get.”
"He couldn’t say the words ‘I lied,’ ” an NBC insider told the magazine. “We could not force his mouth to form the words ‘I lied.’ He couldn’t explain what had happened. [He said,] ‘Did something happen to [my] head? Maybe I had a brain tumor or something in my head?’ He just didn’t know. We just didn’t know. We had no clear sense of what had happened. We got the best [apology] we could get.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brian-williams-iraq-gaffe-maybe-786999
This is from a new Vanity Fair article, that you can read here (or in the May issue which is not out yet) http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast
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