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Disgraced Matt Lauer Spotted With New Tattoo About ‘Hatred’

The former “Today” show host was seen with the cringeworthy ink days after he slammed Ronan Farrow’s reporting on rape accusations against him.

Disgraced former Today show host Matt Lauer was seen on Wednesday with a new tattoo about hatred, just one day after his lengthy op-ed was published in Mediaite in which he slammed Ronan Farrow’s reporting about a rape accusation against him. Lauer, 62, was pictured driving in Noyack, New York, on Wednesday while wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses to reportedly drop off his 13-year-old son. The tattoo, on his forearm, reads: “Hatred corrodes the container it is carried in.” The quote is from Sen. Alan Simpson’s eulogy at former President George H.W. Bush’s funeral in 2018. “You would have wanted [Bush] on your side,” Simpson said in the speech. “He never hated anyone. He knew what his mother and my mother always knew: Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.”

Lauer in his op-ed fired back at Ronan Farrow for the rape allegations against him published in the journalist’s bombshell book, Catch and Kill. Lauer was fired from NBC following a complaint filed by former Today show producer Brooke Nevils, who later accused him of rape. “What I found when I read the book was frankly shocking,” Lauer writes in the piece, “and it should concern anyone who cares about journalism.”