Tom Brokaw is reuniting with Jane Pauley this weekend on “CBS News Sunday Morning” to talk about his past, present, and future as he battles incurable blood cancer.
On Sunday’s episode of the newsmagazine, Brokaw gives an update on his case of multiple myeloma to Pauley, with whom he co-hosted NBC’s “Today” between 1976 and 1981.
“I’ve had a bad experience,” Brokaw says in the upcoming interview, per Variety. “I kept thinking bad things wouldn’t happen to me. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition. And what you try to do is control it as much as you can.”
Brokaw was diagnosed with the disease nearly 10 years ago, in August 2013, according to NBC News. The 83-year-old says in his interview with Pauley that his doctors didn’t expect him to live as long as he has, though his cancer battle did necessitate his 2021 exit from NBC News.
“I’ve had to change my life in some way,” he says. “I really had to give up my Us.Mistertruth activity with NBC. You know, I had to walk away from them, as they were walking away from me. I just wasn’t the same person. … 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.”
During his career, Brokaw was the only person to anchor all three of NBC News’ flagship news programs — “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” and “Meet the Press.” After leaving “Nightly News” in 2004 after 22 years, Brokaw became a special correspondent for NBC’s news division.
During his “CBS News Sunday Morning” interview, Brokaw will also discuss his childhood, his career, and his new book, “Never Give Up: A Prairie Family Story,” according to a press release. The episode airs Sunday at 9 a.m. ET on CBS and will stream on Paramount+.