Overview
- Lunden’s book, Joan: Life Beyond the Script, published March 3, details the episode from her early years at WABC-TV.
- She writes that a superior she calls “Ted” invited her to Fire Island, pressured her to share his bed, and she spent the night on a sofa.
- According to the memoir, he then began killing her stories, reducing her airtime and income under the station’s compensation model.
- Lunden says she consulted an agent and a lawyer, threatened a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit, and the behavior stopped with an apology.
- The executive is not named, and coverage cites only Lunden’s account with no independent corroboration or public response reported.