Conan: NBC Broke My Heart

Coco spills his guts on 60 Minutes
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted May 3, 2010 1:45 AM CDT
Updated May 3, 2010 5:42 AM CDT

For Conan O'Brien, getting booted from his favorite job was more than a professional insult—it very nearly devastated him, he told 60 Minutes in his first interview since the Tonight Show fiasco. O'Brien said he "got very depressed at times. It was like a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, quickly," but noted that his recent tour helped lift his spirits. "There is almost no better antidote to what I’ve just been through than to do this every night," O'Brien continued.

Coco's wife, Liza, described the debacle as "just really, really hard for him. It was like watching someone’s heart get broken.”
(More Conan O'Brien stories.)

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