MSNBC anchor Katy Tur recalled the dramatic 2013 cellphone name wherein her father, tv information cameraman Bob Tur, got here out as transgender.
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MSNBC anchor Katy Tur mentioned she was “puzzled” when her now-estranged father — legendary journalist Bob Tur — instructed her he was transitioning to turn out to be a girl.
“My dad mentioned, ”I'm a girl’,” Katy Tur instructed CBS Sunday Morning, as she recounted their dialog from practically a decade in the past whereas selling her upcoming memoir, “Tough Draft.”
“And I mentioned ‘What?’ And my dad mentioned, ‘I’m a girl, I’m transitioning, I’m going to turn out to be a girl’.”
The 38-year-old journalist is the daughter of media energy couple Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur — who earlier than transitioning to turn out to be a girl gained fame because the helicopter cameraperson who was the primary to movie pivotal occasions in Los Angeles, together with the 1992 riots and the OJ Simpson police chase in 1994.
Gerrard, a retired broadcast journalist and photographer, and Tur went on to co-found the Los Angeles Information Service.
The 2013 cellphone name could be the final time Tur talked to her dad, who has by no means met the 2 kids she has with CBS Information star Tony Dokoupil.
“I keep in mind being at first puzzled and saying, ‘You gotta be joking. You’re kidding, what are you speaking about?'” she mentioned on the CBS morning present.
“And my dad was adamant,” she mentioned. “‘I’m the improper individual. I’m going to turn out to be the best individual. Don’t you see? Because of this I’ve been so indignant’.”
“And it was actually simply, it was loads,” added Tur, who made a reputation for herself as MSNBC’s reporter overlaying Donald Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign.
Tur mentioned that her dad confessed to being violent along with his spouse and two kids, together with throwing batteries at her, her brother, and her mom.
Zoey Tur instructed CBS Sunday Morning that she “failed” her daughter.
“She [Katy] actually regarded as much as me, and I failed her,” Zoey Tur mentioned.
“No father needs to fail their daughter…Throwing batteries? In all probability, yeah. Punching partitions? There have been a pair.”
Zoey Tur mentioned that her conduct throughout the marriage to Gerrard was because of her not having the ability to be her true self.
She mentioned she made the choice to transition whereas sitting in a Florida resort room. Had she not turn out to be a girl, she mentioned she would have ended her life.
In 2016, Zoey Tur mentioned in an interview that popping out as transgender caught her daughter and ex-wife off guard.
“They knew I used to be bisexual. That was acceptable. The transgender stuff, no. No, that crossed the road,” Zoey Tur mentioned.
“Tough Draft” was revealed by Simon & Schuster.
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