Connie Chung Makes Shocking Revelations About ABC Colleagues, Claims David Letterman Is 'Dark'

Connie Chung made several shocking revelations about her career as a former ABS, CBS, NBC and CNN anchor. She also shared surprising details about David Letterman.

Chung, 74, got candid about a lot of things in her career when she appeared in Andrew Goldman's "The Originals" podcast for Los Angeles Magazine. She also shared the tension behind the scenes involving her and her co-anchors Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters at ABC. Initially, she thought they would get along, but she felt she was sidelined.

"When I went to ABC news, I joined with both Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer there and I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be great. It’ll be three women who get along,'" she was quoted by Page Six, as saying.

Also, when she was working with Walters and Sawyer, she noticed the environment was "not unlike what Tonya Harding did to Nancy Kerrigan."

"When I got to ABC, both Diane and Barbara were in the same sort of arena of trying to get these big interviews. So when I tried to go after them, I was told I could not. That Barbara and Diane were the only ones who could compete for the interview and I had to stand down. And I said, ‘Really?'"

Chung began her career as a CBS Evening News correspondent in the '70s before she headed to NBC and winded up back at CBS with Dan Rather in the '90s. She described Rather as someone who was "very Texas gentlemanly" outwardly, but "if I turned my back, I felt like I might be in a scene of ‘Psycho’ in the shower."

Meanwhile, Chung was among Letterman's favorite guests on his late-night show. She shared that they had a thing for each other, but the host was very different off camera.

"I had this thing for him, and he had a thing for me, and I really think it was inexplicable in that respect. And yet I really didn’t have a thing for him. Do you know what I mean? I love people who have a sense of humor and who are charming, and he was that when he was on the air," she continued.

"[But] off he air, he’s dark … he’s a dark, unhappy sort of, I don’t mean he’s unhappy. He is a kvetch. He’s a goyishe kvetch. He’s anti-social is what he is," she added.

Chung also described her "The Undoing" co-star Hugh Grant as "not very friendly." Moreover, she allegedly received an "evil eye" from Danish director Susanne Bier. Page Six noted that she didn't mention Bier by name but referred to her as "the Danish director."