Billy Bush Breaks Silence on Trump's Lewd Leaked Audio: 'I Didn't Have the Strenght of Character' to Change the Subject

Billy Bush takes the cover of THR‘s latest issue to explain his side of the story with regards to that infamous lewd leaked audio with Donald Trump.

Here’s what the 45-year-old former TV personality had to share:

On the actual conversation: “Looking back on what was said on that bus, I wish I had changed the topic…[Trump] liked TV and competition. I could’ve said, ‘Can you believe the ratings on whatever?’ I didn’t have the strength of character to do it.”

On what happened when the tape leaked: “I put together an apology right away… I told people that I was ashamed and embarrassed. And I was. So in the beginning, I thought, ‘OK, we’ll go and own up to this moment. Then I got home, and it started to become apparent that [I] would not be returning [to "Today"]. It hurt a lot, and I fell apart.”

On his comeback to TV: “There’s a process that needs to take place because you just can’t come back; it has to have changed you in some way. But I plan to return to the job that I love, which is television, communicating, interviewing people.”

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