Joan Lunden today: How a television executive tried to destroy her career

Veteran TV journalist Joan Lunden is opening up about a painful moment from early in her career. In her new memoir, Joan: Life Beyond the Script, she says a television executive once made a move on her. Then, things quickly changed at work after she rejected him.

Lunden, who later became famous as a co-host on Good Morning America, writes about the experience in her new book Joan: Life Beyond the Script. She says the incident happened when she worked at the New York station WABC-TV in the 1970s.

At the time, Lunden was still new in the television business. According to her story, one of her bosses invited her to what sounded like a work gathering with colleagues. But once they arrived, she realized it was more like a private getaway—and the executive was interested in something beyond work.