After her resignation, Williams faced a long period of what she would later describe as "the betrayal, and the humiliation, that happened to me on a grand scale."[REF]Essence
She would also later state that these events delayed her career by about ten years,[REF] as "it seemed like an eternity in which I was the punch line to every late-night monologue .. Joan Rivers, whom I adored and met on The Tonight Show during my reign, was particularly relentless.