John Campbell outside the TV3 studios in Eden Terrace, Auckland, after the Campbell Live news and current affairs TV show has it's last broadcast tonight. 29 May 2015 New Zealand Herald Photograph by
John Campbell has finally spoken of the dramatic cancellation of his show Campbell Live and his subsequent departure from TV3, saying his axing came as a shock and left him grieving.
Campbell told Metro magazine his lawyer Linda Clark gave him some good advice: "You'll grieve," she said.
Campbell said
he "absolutely did grieve" on leaving the station where he'd spent more than 20 years working - including the past eight where he said he hadn't received or sought a pay rise.
"I still feel sad about it," he said. "It wasn't about me or my career or anything, because what I believe we created was a model of constructive, illuminating, empathetic television that also had enough going for it to commercially be sustainable. And I was devastated by our inability to make that work."
