Billy Bush Split Had ‘Nothing to Do’ With Donald Trump Scandal – Celebrity News

As previously reported, Bush, 45, and the then-Celebrity Apprentice host, 71, were caught engaging in misogynistic banter before they filmed a segment for Access Hollywood. Trump spoke about failing to sleep with a married woman (who was revealed to be Nancy O’Dell) and that he “moved on her like a bitch.”

Bush opened up about the tape days later. “Obviously I’m embarrassed and ashamed,” he told Us in a statement in October. “It’s no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago — I was younger, less mature and acted foolishly in playing along. I’m very sorry.” (Bush was 33 and Trump was 59 at the time.)

Bush, who laughed during the conversation, was fired by NBC days after the clip surfaced. Trump, meanwhile, called the incident “locker-room talk” and was inaugurated as the 69th President of the United States in January.

Bush would later discuss the situation in length in a Hollywood Reporter cover story, which was published on May 21.

“I am not grateful for the moment. But I’m grateful for what I’ve gotten out of it. I’m grateful that it hit me all the way to my core,” he said. “And my wife, Sydney, knows the environment and the atmosphere I was in at the time, and she knows very well the person she married. She has been very supportive from the very beginning.”

The former couple are parents of daughters Josie, Mary and Lillie.

Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now!

For the latest celebrity entertainment, news and lifestyle videos, subscribe to Us Weekly’s YouTube Page.