Nicole Lapin

Yes.

And it was.

It totally was.

But I was when I was blindsided and got a call from.

hr and and asked why and i still had time on my contract which was bizarre at the time because i could have gotten paid out but there was part of the stipulation that if you got another job you don't get severance so i got another job pretty quickly you almost can't afford to go to work i know yeah unless it's for more

But I was so scared.

I was so scared.

I had no safety net at the time.

But Margaret.

But it's so scary when a huge thing like that happens.

If the financial component is just as shaky or worse, it makes everything harder because you're already going through such a whirlwind.

And the world was changing to the paradigm.

I mean, we saw then, you know, Paris Hilton leaving jail was breaking news on CNN.

And I was like, wait a minute.

I went to journalism school.

What are we doing?

Things are changing.

The Kardashians are hosting the Today Show.

Mario Lopez is hosting a big entertainment show.

These were the pinnacle of where you were told you were supposed to climb to in this space.