Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is set to sit down with CBS Sunday Morning host Jane Pauley for an update on his incurable blood cancer.
In a teaser for the interview, the 83-year-old shared with his former colleague the extent the cancer has altered his life.
“I’ve had a bad experience,” Brokaw told Pauley. “I kept thinking bad things wouldn’t happen to me. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition. And what you try to do is control it as much as you can.”
Brokaw shared that the news he’d be forced to step away from NBC News was life altering.
“I’ve had to change my life in some way,” he tells Pauley. “I really had to give up my daily activity with NBC. You know, I had to walk away from them, as they were walking away from me. I just wasn’t the same person. … And so for the first time in my life, I was kind of out there, you know, in a place I had never been in my life.”
Brokaw spent 55 years at NBC News. He was the host of NBC Nightly News for 21 of those years, anchoring the program from 1983-2004. He and Pauley worked together for 13 years, and introduced her to her now husband.
