often appeared incoherent in the months leading up to the cancellation of her talk show, and then had to be repeatedly reminded that the program had been axed, according to a new report that sheds light on her battle to stay on the air.didn’t return to her iconic purple chair last fall continues to haunt fans of the daytime gossip queen.
Staffers say there were signs that her health was declining in the four years leading up to the show’s cancellation. Producers had to text Debmar-Mercury execs “at least 25” times asking whether the host was sober enough to go on the air. At least one pre-taped episode had to be pulled because she reportedly wasn’t sober enough. One source said staffers would “find bottles [of alcohol] up in the ceiling tiles and other strange places in the office.
“She gets on and she starts rambling about ‘I’m really fine, it’s going to be fine,’ and it’s like, ‘What are you saying?’” one show insider toldBurstein said, “It lasted two and a half, three minutes, and it was not pretty,” adding that “people were sort of freaked out. She was saying things like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait, I’ll be back with you really soon,’ but it was obvious to anyone watching that she was not going to be back really soon.
Sad