Amy Pascal has candidly addressed her stepping down as a chief of Sony Pictures, last year's embarrassment over leaked emails and the devastating hack that started it all.
Appearing at the Women in the World conference at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel on Wednesday, Pascal was direct about her turbulent recent months — which culminated in her "transition" to producer a week ago.
"All the women here are doing incredible things in this world. All I did was get fired," Pascal told moderator Tina Brown, according to tech blog re/code. "Everyone knows everything about me. What am I doing here?"
Brown asked about the moment in last year's hack frenzy Pascal knew her personal inbox was about to become a topic of national conversation.
"I ran this company and I had to worry about everybody who was really scared … people were really scared … but nagging in the back of my mind, I kept calling [IT] and being like, 'They don't have our emails, tell me they don't have our emails,'" said Pascal . "But then they did. That was a bad moment. And you know what you write in emails."
In regards to jokes about President Barack Obama that many found racist, Pascal reportedly got choked up, saying "it was horrible. That was horrible."
Less traumatizing was smoothing things over with Angelina Jolie. In an email exchange between Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, Jolie was labelled a "minimally talented spoiled brat."
