“My dad said, ‘I’m a woman,’” Katy Tur told CBS Sunday Morning as she recounted their conversation nearly a decade ago as she promoted her upcoming memoir, “Rough Draft.” “And I said ‘What?’ And my dad said, ‘I’m a woman, I’m going, I’re going to be a woman.’ The 38-year-old journalist is the daughter of media power couple Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur – who before becoming a woman gained the reputation of the helicopter camera that was the first to film critical events in Los Angeles, including the 1992 riots and the police crackdown. persecution of OJ Simpson in 1994. Gerrard, a retired journalist and photographer, and Tur co-founded the Los Angeles News Service. The 2013 phone call would be the last time Tur spoke to her dad, who has never met the two children he has with CBS News star Tony Dokupil. Katy Tur’s father, Zoey TurInstagram / @ zoeyturKaty Tur, revealed that her father was violent against her, her brother and her mother. CBS Sunday morning “I remember at first I was confused and I said, ‘You must be kidding. Are you kidding, what do you say? ” he said on the CBS morning show. “And my father was adamant,” he said. “I am the wrong person. I will be the right person. You do not see; “That’s why I was so angry.” “And it was really a lot, it was a lot,” added Tur, who made a name for herself as an MSNBC reporter covering Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Tur said her father confessed to being violent with his wife and two children, including throwing batteries at her, her brother and her mother. Zoey Tur told CBS Sunday Morning that she “failed” her daughter. “She [Katy] “She really looked at me and I failed her,” said Zoey Tur. “No father wants to disappoint his daughter τώντας Throwing batteries? Probably yes. Drilling walls? “There was a couple.” Zoey Tur said that her behavior during her marriage to Gerrard was due to the fact that she could not be her real self. Zoey Tur admitted to hitting walls and throwing batteries at her children. CBS Sunday MorningKaty Tur Her mother is Marika Gerrard, a retired journalist and photographer. CBS Sunday Morning Katy Tur has been estranged from Zoey since 2013. She has two young children with her husband. CBS News Broadcast Tony Dokoupil.CBS Sunday Morning He said he made the decision to move while sitting in a hotel room in Florida. If she did not become a woman, she said she would end her life. In 2016, Zoey Tur said in an interview that going out in a trance caught her daughter and ex-wife reluctant. “They knew I was bisexual. That was acceptable. Trans things, no. “No, that’s the limit,” said Zoey Tur. The “Rough Draft” was published by Simon & Schuster.
