Billy Bush says he reported the Trump’s band “ Access Hollywood ” in 2005

Billy Bush spoke of Donald Trump’s sad Access to Hollywood Strip in a new interview with Rob Lowe on the actor’s Siriusxm podcast Literally! With Rob Lowerevealing that he reported the president’s obscene comments to a higher decade before the scandal helmet.

“On the day of filming in 2005, I called my producer [and] said, ‘You won’t believe what Trump said. He goes after Nancy. All I said was “Nancy O’Dell” because I did not hear other things, “Bush told Lowe, referring to his Access to Hollywood O’Dell colleague. The “other things” apparently refer to Trump’s comments on the seizure of women by the genitals. “I said,” He tries to make Nancy furniture to sleep with her. It’s crazy. He started it again! The guy is an animal! I bring it back, basically, to my superior, but it is in an office because … if a band was leak when it occurred in 2005, I would have been dismissed for a completely different reason from NBC.

At the time, Trump faced the successful reality TV show The apprentice For NBC while Bush was in its first full year as a Access to Hollywood Co-anchor alongside O’Dell. It was not until 2016, during the last weeks of Trump’s first campaign for the White House, when The Washington Post published a presentation which revealed the audio of what has become known as ” Access to Hollywood Adhesive tape. “The recording presents Trump, who would survive the scandal to become president of the United States, boasting of a bus in 2005 on the seizure of women by the genitals in audio captured by the camera.

Bush could be understood to laugh in the background, and his involvement in the scandal ended up costing him a job at NBC Today. He has since recalled the incident and his fallout to The Hollywood Reporter And in a column for The New York TimesAmong other points of sale. In Lowe, Bush also offered additional details on how NBC managers were looking for clips that presented Trump, speaking in a denigrant manner of women.

“NBC released an APB bulletin, All points, on Donald Trump because there was an old one [pageant queen] Who manifested himself and said he had done something inappropriate. Donald Trump said, “I never said or did anything inappropriate with women in my life,” said Bush. “And then NBC, who hates him, sent these messages to each division of the company:” Do you have recordings … – What they really wanted is the band of Mark Burnett, the guy who directed The apprenticeBecause there are outings forever – but [they asked]”Does anyone else have something that speak derogatory of women in a derogatory manner?” We need it. And my producer at the time was like, ‘saint. The bus route. This band was like 11 years ago. This is the moment when Bush called me right after it happened. “”

On Literally! With Rob LoweSaid Bush losing his job, he lost his first “really important pay check”. He also attributes a narrow circle that included his brother, his pastor, Tony Robbins and celebrities like Dennis Quaid, Julie Bowen, Cindy Crawford, Eric Stonestreet, Michael Strahan, Modern family Creator Steve Levitan and Suzanne Somers for having supported him.

“I would never have survived without them,” said Bush. “I did everything I could think of to prevent myself from jumping from the building because, Rob, I was about to get a huge pay check, my first very big pay check. I am at Today to show. They still have money. They are the last thing on linear television with real money … and back at the bottom of the hill. Or let’s say the middle of the hill and then you have to keep coming back.

Bush said he also remembered those people who were not there for him at the time; Although he offers advice to anyone in a similar situation with his own friends. “I always say to get the phone, call, send an SMS:” Hey, my friend. ” Thinking about you. I am here. Do it.

The episode of Lowe with Bush is part of the new season of Literally! With Rob LoweA set of episodes that will present discussions with guests such as Larry Charles, the CEO of Roblox David Baszuck, Marc Maron, Joel Mchale, Daniel Dae Kim and more.