Former “Good Morning America Weekend” anchor Janai Norman has returned to the country of her birth, South Africa, after ABC’s management abruptly failed to renew her contract in April.
Norman announced the move on Instagram Stories Saturday in a post about her upcoming memoir, “Breaking.”
“And speaking of breaking, have I mentioned my family is taking a break from the US?” Norman wrote, according to The New York Post.
Norman revealed that she has settled in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, along with her husband and their three children.
Norman served as weekend co-anchor of GMA alongside Whit Johnson and Gio Benitz since 2022. She previously worked as a correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor for World News Now and America This Morning.
After her abrupt ouster from the network, Norman said in a post to X, “I’d hoped that we’d have more time. It’s been hard on me that our time was cut short. I have loved my job. So, it really breaks my heart that I don’t get to say goodbye. I’m so sorry that I don’t get to say goodbye. It would have been fun.”
Following that post, Norman began slamming ABC News and some of her old colleagues on social media.
According to The New York Post, “Norman has unleashed a string of blistering social media critiques of her old employer, including accusing it and other news organizations of becoming ‘complicit in upholding white supremacy’ in a video that took aim at ‘GMA’ host Michael Strahan’s interview with the parents of a dead Mississippi teen.”
“Bless Michael, ’cause he had it right the first time. The question should have been, ‘Do you believe that?’ Not asking these grieving parents to defend a decision that we don’t even know for certain their deceased son made,” Norman said in an Instagram video in July. She added, “That was not an objective question. Subjectively, I would say that it was insensitive.”
When asked to comment, an ABC News spokesperson told The New York Post, “Michael is an invaluable and highly respected member of the ABC News family. He is a trusted anchor and journalist, and we have complete confidence in his editorial judgment, integrity, and professionalism.”
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