He added: \u201cWhat was I supposed to do? Get her Gift Certificates from Kmart?\u201d<\/p>\n
Olbermann\u2019s response comes after Lizza wrote in Monday\u2019s edition of Telos News<\/a>, \u201cNot that long ago, I had helped her untangle herself from an unusual relationship with Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC host. She had messaged him out of the blue. They started talking, and soon after, she fled her unhappy home in suburban New Jersey and started living with Keith in Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cHe paid for her to attend college, outfitted her in Tom Ford and Herv\u00e9 L\u00e9ger dresses and some $15,000 worth of Cartier jewelry. Later, he covered her rent and furnished her apartment in a doorman building in the West Village.\u201d<\/p>\n As Lizza continued, he highlighted the 34-year age gap between the couple, and accused Olbermann of gifting Nuzzi presents with \u201cstrings attached.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOlivia had concealed the relationship from me and other friends, but one day she told me everything\u2014too much, actually\u2014and together we hatched a plan for her escape,\u201d Lizza added. \u201cWhen friends asked why I never responded to Keith\u2019s public attacks on me and Olivia, I explained that she had felt stalked by Keith after she left him, and we had a strict policy of never engaging with him.\u201d<\/p>\n Nuzzi\u2019s romantic history has been a major source of conversation in the last year, given the journalist exited her job at New York magazine after disclosing she had an unethical sexting relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while covering his 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n Nuzzi later filed a legal complaint against her ex-fianc\u00e9 Lizza, in which she accused him of organizing a campaign of blackmail and harassment against her<\/a> after learning of the RFK relationship.<\/p>\n She further accused Lizza of having \u201cexplicitly threatened to make public personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation\u2014a threat he has since carried out.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Lizza painted a different picture in Monday\u2019s Substack post. \u201cI was not a perfect partner, but the scale of Olivia\u2019s betrayal was devastating,\u201d he wrote. \u201cShe had an affair with someone who would provide the maximum level of humiliation and personal and professional ruin, perhaps for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n Following the affair controversy, Nuzzi was tapped as the new West Coast editor for Vanity Fair, penned a memoir, titled \u201cAmerican Canto,\u201d and featured in The New York Times \u2014 which was notably ripped apart by critics online.<\/p>\n The post Keith Olbermann Dismisses Ryan Lizza\u2019s Criticism of His \u2018Generous\u2019 Olivia Nuzzi Love Affair: \u2018I Made an F-Ton Then\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann shot down Ryan Lizza\u2019s critique of choices he made while in a relationship with Olivia Nuzzi,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,132159,132160,132161,348],"class_list":["post-292569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-olivia-nuzzi","tag-ryan-lizza","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0803eb3864e5fd1398ebb3ebdd678868.jpeg\"\/)
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