John Campbell has finally spoken of the dramatic cancellation of his show Campbell Live and his subsequent departure from TV3, saying his axing came as a shock and left him grieving.
Campbell told Metro magazine his lawyer Linda Clark gave him some good advice: "You'll grieve," she said.
Campbell said he "absolutely did grieve" on leaving the station where he'd spent more than 20 years working - including the past eight where he said he hadn't received or sought a pay rise.
"I still feel sad about it," he said. "It wasn't about me or my career or anything, because what I believe we created was a model of constructive, illuminating, empathetic television that also had enough going for it to commercially be sustainable. And I was devastated by our inability to make that work."
