Billy Bush says he turned to alcohol after being fired for infamous Trump
Billy Bush was deeply affected by the fallout from his infamous exchange with Donald Trump while taping a 2005 interview for Access Hollywood. Unaired footage of the two had surfaced in the run-up to the 2016 election, showing the two having a lewd conversation. Trump, then the host of The Apprentice, made the comment that he grabbed women "by the p****," while Bush laughed and encouraged the future president. Bush was fired within days, and he was suspended from his job as a co-anchor of Today.
"I think it took me 'til recently… probably four years to really, you know, four or five years to really get... through the PTSD," Bush told Olivia Jade Giannulli on the NFL Jerseys for Cheap latest episode of her podcast, Conversations With…. "Because it's brutal… I’m providing for my family…. ...