‘Speaking to Folks from His Previous Is Painful’

Brent N. Clarke/FilmMagic Matt Lauer

Matt Lauer is constant to tighten his interior circle 5 years after being ousted from the At the moment present.

A supply tells PEOPLE solely that the previous morning present anchor, 64, has “form of withdrawn from a number of friendships within the final yr,” notably following the discharge of his former co-host Katie Couric’s memoir, Going There.

“He was actually upset by Katie Couric’s e book,” the insider reveals. “She shared their non-public textual content messages and she or he semi-slammed him. It made him lose belief.”

The supply continues, “His degree of belief has simply diminished with lots of people he thought of buddies and far of that was due to Katie’s e book, and since speaking to individuals from his previous is painful.”

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James Devaney/WireImage Matt Lauer and Katie Couric

The insider provides that Lauer is in “transitional time” together with his two older kids — Jack, 21, and Romy, 19 — who at the moment are in faculty, and his youngest, 16-year-old Thrijs, who’s in highschool. The supply notes he’s a “semi-empty nester, not working.”

A rep for Couric didn’t instantly return PEOPLE’s request for remark.

Throughout an look on Today in Oct. 2021, Couric, 65, mentioned that when she heard concerning the allegations towards Lauer, it was “actually, actually onerous and it took me a very long time to course of what was happening.”

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“The aspect of Matt I knew was the aspect of Matt I feel you all knew. He was sort, beneficiant, thoughtful, a great colleague,” she mentioned. “I bought extra info and discovered extra about what was happening behind the scenes. After which I did a few of my very own reporting, talked to individuals, tried to excavate what had been happening. It was actually devastating and in addition disgusting.”

“I feel what I spotted is that there was a aspect of Matt I by no means actually knew. I attempted to grasp why he behaved the best way he did, and why he was so reckless, and callous, and actually abusive to different girls,” Couric continued.

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In a 2021 PEOPLE cowl story, the tv character reiterated how she was “shocked” after studying of the allegations, and known as Lauer’s conduct “grossly inappropriate.”

“That is not the Matt I knew,” Couric mentioned. “There is a duality in human beings, and generally they do not allow you to see each side.”

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Kevin Mazur/Getty Matt Lauer and Katie Couric

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Lauer was fired by NBC in November 2017 after a former community worker, later recognized as Brooke Nevils, reported that he sexually harassed her. A number of different girls got here ahead with related accusations shortly thereafter.

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Nevils went public to Ronan Farrow for his 2019 e book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Defend Predators. To Farrow, Nevils alleged that Lauer raped her in his lodge room on the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the place she was working for NBC’s Meredith Vieira. Lauer has mentioned all of his encounters have been consensual.

For those who or somebody you understand has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.