The interview-format news show is something the New Jersey-native is "really excited" about, especially considering the pressure put on women - often by fellow women, she notes - to look amazing and stay forever young or move along, as recent comments by Don Lemon about Nikki Haley being past her "prime" (which Vargas told People "made most women cringe") and the firing of CTV new anchor Lisa LaFlamme for letting her hair go gray were stark reminders of. Her sobriety - particularly as it relates to being a divorced New York City mom of two boys, 17 and 20 - is also something she's ever-grateful for, as well as how her credentialed career continues to soar, currently with the April 3 premiere of Elizabeth Vargas Reports on NewsNation. "So, it turned out to be a gift, you know?" "I get messages like that almost every day - and this is seven years after I wrote my book," she adds. "I wrote it also because I read so many other people's books about their struggles with alcoholism and anxiety and sobriety, and those books helped me so much that I thought: Maybe my story can help somebody else," she says, adding that just the day before this interview, she got email from a man thanking her for her book, which helped him better understand what his wife is going through in rehab.
"Everybody deserves to go through that painful process of putting their life back together in private."īut while that time still haunts her, Vargas's response - to write her 2016 memoir, Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction, so she could "finally control the narrative" - has more than made up for it, she says. "Still, a decade later, it shocks me that somebody would do that," Vargas, 60, tells Yahoo Life about the still-unknown informant of those 2013 stories. But perhaps the most challenging headlines were those the newswoman made herself, back when the now-sober mother-of-two did a stint in rehab to address her alcohol addiction, and it was leaked to the press. (Photo: Getty Images)įor three decades, television journalist Elizabeth Vargas has been delivering Americans the most important news, from political upsets and immigration standoffs to unsolved crimes and natural disasters. Elizabeth Vargas says she still gets daily emails thanking her for writing her 2016 memoir about her alcoholism.
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