The veteran Bay Area newsman, whose awful year culminated in drunkenly slamming his Porsche into another vehicle on Dec. 30, sat down with San Francisco outlet KRON4 to speak for nearly 30 minutes about the months leading up to the crash.
Frank Somerville had a rough 2021—and he’s finally ready to talk about it on camera. The veteran Bay Area newsman, whose awful year culminated in drunkenly slamming his Porsche into another vehicle on Dec. 30, sat down with San Francisco outlet“It all came to a head when I got the DUI,” he said.
It was a claim he reiterated on Wednesday in his KRON4 interview. “I was taking what I thought was one of my prescription drugs; instead, it was two Ambien,” he said. Somerville, who has a Black daughter, wanted to add a 46-second “tag” to an update on the Petito story that recognized the racially disproportionate media coverage of Black and white crime victims. The tag was cut—over Somerville’s protestations—by producers after newsroom editors expressed misgivings about it, a source told the“I thought the coverage across the country of Gabby Petito was insane,” he told KRON4. “There was no reason for it other than she was a cute white kid.
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