“Well, I had that — I actually thought about that, because I saw what everyone said, ‘Well you should have asked this, you should have asked that.’
Well, you should have got the interview. How about that?
That’s one thing,” Strahan said.
He maintained that his role as an interviewer was to serve the guest's stated preferences rather than pursue sensational headlines.
“Two, that was Chris’s moment for Chris to share the story which Chris wanted to share.
And when I got the call that Chris wanted to share that he has ALS, that was the story.
It wasn’t for me to try to grandstand, which — I hate when people do this, Dan,” Strahan said.
“As an interviewer, our job is to deliver information.
I’m not trying to get a bigger name for myself by putting somebody else in an uncomfortable position.
I was there as a service to Chris, for what Chris wanted people to understand and know about his life and where he was now,” he added.
Strahan concluded by noting that Johnson personally trusted the network to broadcast his diagnosis without distraction.
“I did ask Chris about football, how the NFL has been supportive and all those things. He has twin boys who play football right now.
So there are so many things that people don’t know but a few were critical of, but overall I’m very proud of what we did there at ABC in bringing that story,” Strahan said.
“And I’m very proud and very happy that Chris trusted us to tell it. Because that was Chris’s story to tell.
The headline’s about Chris Johnson, not about Michael Strahan. I don’t make any of these things about myself.
And that was the disappointing thing for a few people who were critical of that.
But if you don’t have critics that means you’re not doing a good job, too,” he said.
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Research from a 2021 study involving over 19,000 professional football players showed that former NFL players suffer from ALS at four times the rate of the general population, according to reports by Pro Football Talk.
