Kelly Ripaisn’t sweatingKathie Lee Gifford’s recent remarks about her new book.
Do I advance a media narrative with clickbait and all of that stuff?
Or do I just drop it?'"
Kelly Ripa and Kathie Lee Gifford.Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Mike Pont/WireImage
Ultimately, the TV host is grateful for all the buzz surrounding her memoir.
“It’s really hard to sell a book, right?
And this is like, week three of the book,” Ripa said.
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa on ‘Live With Regis and Kelly’.Bennett Raglin/WireImage
And suddenly all of these headlines pop up and there’s all of this attention on my book.
So I am a person that tends to take a negative and turn it into a positive.
And so my ultimate comment is, ‘Thank you.'"
Ripa has called the chapter about the late Philbin “the hardest” one to write.
“But I also want people to know it was not a cakewalk.”
Including an office and a place to put my computer."
Gifford recently responded to the anecdoteonGood Day New York.
“I was really sorry to see the headlines,” she said.
“What’s the point?”
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Storiesis out now.
