 Katie Couric thinks some of the reports about her former colleague Matt Lauer aren’t entirely true, but also that the scope of the sexual harassment allegations against him may extend beyond what the public currently knows. “It’s been a very painful time for a lot of people who worked with Matt, knew him, really care about him, and who never witnessed or experienced any of this behavior that is now obviously being talked about,” Couric, 61, told Wendy Williams Tuesday. “I don’t know the full extent of all these things that happened. I can only talk about my personal experience and I was always treated respectfully and appropriately.” 
 
 Couric added that a potential comeback for her former “Today” show co-anchor, who was fired in November 2017 for “inappropriate sexual behavior” at NBC, would be “challenging” at best. In 2012, Couric said on “Watch What Happens Live” that when she and Lauer, 60, worked together, “He pinches me on the ass a lot.” 
 
 “I was joking! Published on May 2, 2018 
 
 Reporter Katie Couric addresses the comment she made when she was on WWHL with Matt Lauer about him pinching her butt and tells Andy Cohen it was a joke that she now regrets making.
– That infamous privacy button that Matt Lauer had under his desk was an “executive perk” rather than a “nefarious thing” used to trap women in his office, Katie Couric told Wendy Williams on Williams' show Tuesday. “A lot of NBC executives have those buttons that open and close doors. It was really just a privacy thing,” Couric said, per Page Six. "A lot of stuff gets misreported and blown out of proportion." Lauer's former longtime colleague is struggling to reconcile her own experiences with the disgraced NBC host and what others have said about him. Couric said that Lauer always treated her "respectfully and appropriately," but added that it would likely be "challenging" for Lauer to experience a comeback. “I think it depends on ... how he decides to handle what has happened. And the full extent of what has happened, I don’t think has been truly revealed," she added. Later Tuesday, she went on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live and cleared up another misunderstanding related to Lauer. For the record, she was joking when she told the show in 2012 that Lauer "pinches me on the ass a lot." "I was joking! It was a total joke," she told host Andy Cohen.