I'll bet no one in NBC legal looked closely at her contract before they pulled the trigger. That says they either made a $69 million mistake or they really hated her.
They really hated her. Apparently she really went of on Matt Lauer, like a pitbull on a chicken, wouldn’t let go. Her colleagues hated her for that (they loved Matt); and they never got over it.
“NBC had an excuse to fire her and used it.”
Exactly.