'And Meredith said, 'It's not about you he wants to meet Jane.' I said, 'Oh, I hadn't thought about that!'' 'I said… 'Boy, Garry is really a good friend, he's at the office a lot,' ' he said. 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.'īrokaw also reminisced about introducing Pauley to her now-husband, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, with his wife Meredith Lynn Auld. You know, I had to walk away from them, as they were walking away from me. 'I really had to give up my daily activity with NBC. 'I've had to change my life in some way,' he said. He announced his retirement from NBC after a 55-year career in January 2021. He announced the cancer was in remission in 2014. And what you try to do is control it as much as you can.'īrokaw was diagnosed in 2013 with the disease and continued working while he was being treated. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition. 'I kept thinking bad things wouldn't happen to me. 'I've had a bad experience,' Brokaw told longtime friend and 'CBS Sunday Morning' host Jane Pauley of his illness. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is opening up about living with cancer.Īccording to a preview of his 'CBS Sunday Morning' interview, airing Sunday, the 83-year-old shared he's had 'a bad experience' while battling multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.

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