He said the last seven months have been “miserable” but he’s spent the time trying to make himself a better person by going to therapy, doing public service, working at a food bank and penning a new book. “I’m trying to become the kind of person people can trust again,” Toobin said. “I am a flawed human being that makes mistakes … It was wrong, it was stupid and I’m trying to be a better person.” Toobin told Camerota on Thursday he felt the glossy’s punishment was “excessive” and he’s “incredibly grateful to CNN for taking me back.” In October, the Harvard alum was caught pleasuring himself during an election simulation Zoom call with some of the magazine’s biggest names.įollowing a three-week probe, the New Yorker’s parent company Condé Nast announced he was getting the boot after 27 years as a staff writer and he also went on leave from CNN. New York Post cover for Tuesday, Octoafter Jeffrey Toobin was suspended for masturbating on a Zoom call. Above all, I am sorry to my wife and to my family but I am also sorry to the people on the Zoom call, I’m sorry to my former colleagues at the New Yorker, I’m sorry to my current, fortunately, still colleagues at CNN and I’m sorry to the people who read my work and who watched me on CNN and who thought I was a better person than this.” “I have tried, and I am trying now, to say how sorry I am, sincerely, in all seriousness. Jeffrey Toobin is back on CNN after a leave of absence for masturbating during a Zoom call. “I didn’t think other people could see me,” he told Camerota on “CNN Newsroom” but agreed that it was no defense for his actions. Toobin, sporting a navy blue suit and a striped tie, responded by saying the masturbatory conduct was “deeply moronic and indefensible.” “To quote Jay Leno, ‘What the hell were you thinking?'” “I feel like we should address what’s happened in the months since we’ve seen you,” CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota said to Toobin, who was the network’s chief legal analyst. Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN on Thursday afternoon and admitted that masturbating during a Zoom call - which got him fired from the New Yorker and led to a leave of absence from the network - was “deeply moronic and indefensible.”
Scandal-scarred Jeffrey Toobin leaving CNN after two decadesĬhris Cuomo could be back on CNN ‘in January’: Brian Stelter Incidents of public figures showering during meetings while thinking they had turned off their camera and sound were reported in Spain and Brazil.Jeffrey Toobin addresses Zoom call masturbation scandal: ‘I’ll regret it for the rest of my life’ĬNN commentator tells Megyn Kelly: ‘I wasn’t allowed to talk about Jeffrey Toobin’s penis’ Video chat service Zoom allows large groups to talk together on a single call and be seen on video, but users have the option to mute their microphone when not speaking and to shut off the camera if they don’t want to be seen or don’t have the internet bandwidth to support the camera service.Įmbarrassing mishaps or glitches have not been uncommon since the service grew in popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic. The online call in questions reportedly involved employees of the magazine as well as staff from WNYC, a New York City and metropolitan area radio station that is part of New York Public Radio. Please be assured that we take such matters seriously and that we are looking into it.”ĬNN issued a statement saying that Toobin “has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted”.
In an email to staffers, New Yorker editor David Remnick wrote : “Dear All, As you may have read in various news reports today, one of our writers, Jeff Toobin, was suspended after an incident on a Zoom call last week. He has has worked for the New Yorker for more than 25 years, and is is also a senior legal analyst at CNN.Ī spokeswoman for the magazine said in a statement that Toobin “has been suspended while we investigate the matter”. Toobin is one of the most well-known media legal analysts in the US. He has so far declined to confirm details.
I thought I had muted the Zoom video, I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me.” He added: “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin said in a statement on Monday about the situation, first reported by Vice.
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