A life-changing decision When Maureen found out that East Carolina would not have a broadcast- ing school for at least five years, she decided to leave college to pursue a career in television. When she told her father about her decision he was not happy, but said that if she could find a TV job in the next 24 hours, he would support her plan. In typical Maureen fashion, she did just that, and landed a job as a reporter at a station in Wilm- ington, North Carolina, where she was eventually promoted to news anchor.
Maureen worked hard on building a solid career. After Wilmington, her next stop was a station in Macon, Geor- gia, where she was a co-anchor and reporter. From Georgia, she traveled across the country to take a position as the main news anchor at a local Spo- kane, Washington, station. It wasn’t long before Maureen was heading back east to New York City to work as a reporter on Fox’s national hit news magazine, “A Current Affair”. When Maury Povich left in 1990, she took over as the show’s host and became one of America’s most popular news personalities.
After several years with “A Current Affair” Maureen left due to contract issues. It was a time in broadcasting when women were not getting equal pay with men, and Maureen did not
think it was fair. In a pure act of faith, she packed up her belongings and headed west without an agent or a job. Within 72 hours of arriving in Los Angeles, she had an agent, and within a week had a contract with Warner Brothers.
Her first job in LA was as a reporter and anchor for “EXTRA,” a nationally syndicated TV series. It was during this time, that Maureen gave birth to her daughter. After “EXTRA”, she hosted her own nationally syndicated talk show, “In Person with Maureen O’Boyle” that ran for one season.
When her contract with Warner Broth- ers ended, Maureen took another leap of faith and moved to a town in New York State with her daughter and be- came a full-time, single, stay-at-home mom. She recalls those years with great fondness and says it was a time of growth and healing for her. It gave her a chance to look at the events of her past and put them into perspective.
A hidden memory becomes public knowledge One of those past events was some- thing she had tried to put behind her for many years, but which was pain- fully revealed to the public back in the early 1990’s. She was working at “A Cur- rent Affair” when one of her colleagues overheard her mention to someone
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