Meyer was dismissed as NBCUniversal vice chairman in August 2020 after he disclosed that he made hush-money funds to a girl to cowl up an outdated affair. A founding father of CAA earlier than helming NBCU, Meyer was one in all Hollywood’s titans, making his fall fom grace all of the steeper.
Nonetheless, he’s maintined his perspective on issues.
“I simply bought again from Cannes,” Meyer mentioned. “I mentioned to all people, ‘In my outdated life, once I would go to Cannes, all people would carry me and carry me far and wide. This final journey, I’m the lifter. I’m carrying all people.’ In order that was the distinction in having the job and never having it.”
Meyer dove into the what-how of his scandal, calling it a “two-night dalliance,” including, “In my lifetime of dangerous judgments, that was one in all my dangerous judgments.”
He mentioned he settled together with his lover as a result of “I didn’t wish to harm my ex-wife. I didn’t need my youngsters to seek out out that i had executed this, and the entire thing was embarrassing and seedy. So I made a settlement along with her, and in that settlement, she had a boyfriend who referred to as me at all times for recommendation, and I attempted to be useful to him…impulsively, I bought a letter from him and his lawyer attempting to sue me for not giving him good recommendation, or no matter you wish to name it.”
Meyer mentioned that “Common determined to fireside me as a result of I didn’t inform them that I had settled a possible lawsuit that named them. I hope I’m saying this proper, however that’s precisely what occurred, and it wasn’t a Me-Too state of affairs. It wasn’t something aside from that.”
The FBI investigated it, he mentioned. “I imply it’s a…you recognize, I used to be extorted, in my view. I clearly paid these guys, by the way in which,” saying that they requested for “tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.”
“It was a unprecedented state of affairs. By the way in which, i’m not the one one they’ve executed this to, proper? However, you recognize, look — individuals in at the moment’s litigious society, clearly every thing got here out, and at the moment’s individuals can sue for something they wish to, yeah, and also you’re pressured to must defend it, by the way in which, in each courtroom on this planet. In all places somebody’s mendacity and somebody’s telling the reality, all people’s swearing on a stack of Bibles.”
Meyer mentioned he didn’t begrudge his firing.
“Fact is, you recognize, if you work for somebody…individuals do what they need. They only must honor their contract. They don’t have to love the way in which I gown or the way in which I look, on the method I sound, the way in which I act. They’ll hearth me at will. They’ve that proper to do it, and so I don’t begrudge that. I at all times knew that in the future, the job would finish. I didn’t like the way in which it ended. I believed it was undignified. I’d hoped that I would depart in a extra memorable method, or much less memorable method, I assume. In order that was that.
“It was embarrassing and embarrassing as a result of I used to be uncovered with none discover to telling my youngsters and my ex-wife, and I felt dangerous that I harm those who I cherished. I used to be shedding my job, sure. I at all times knew that this job wasn’t mine to maintain perpetually. I had lasted longer than anyone ever anticipated.”
Meyer is engaged on his personal tasks and has found the fun of working from residence.
“It’s nice. I imply, I’m hardly ever out of sweatpants or shorts, and I’m not having a nasty time in any respect. I’m undecided I might return to a sq. head job once more. I couldn’t return to a sq. head job once more.”
Meyer could now not be on the prime of Hollywood’s meals chain, however he shared his opinion on the subject that’s dominated the final quarter — the notorious Oscars slap by Will Smith on Chris Rock.
“It’s an actual robust one,” Meyer mentioned. “I’ve recognized Will for a lot of, a few years. I do know Chris Rock for a few years. I love and like them each so much. I imply, it was so out of character for Will, you recognize? From my perspective, it was a punk ass factor to do. You realize, if Mike Tyson was on stage, he wouldn’t have executed it.”
Meyer predicted a bounce-back for Smith, including he deserved his Greatest Actor Oscar.
“He didn’t deserve a standing ovation. However I believe that was a bizarre spontaneous act, and he deserves to be within the doghouse for some time. He didn’t need to get away with it.”
He concluded, “He didn’t do something that ought to finish his profession. He’s not Harvey Weinstein. He’s not. He simply did a punk-ass rooster [ __ ] factor.”
