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Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek said he hasn't been back to Disney since he was ousted in November 2022.
Bloomberg's Business week Daily on Monday, adding that"it would be very difficult for me to go" and"attach that to what I've seen.
""It's like I didn't exist," said Chapek, who started at Disney in 1993, detailing how he felt about the way the company removed him. "The situation itself was not warranted. But even if it was done, there's a way you do it with class and grace and respect after 30 years. I did not receive that.
" In this handout photo provided by Disney Resorts, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Bob Chapek attends the grand opening of Guardians of The Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! attraction on May 25, 2017, at Disney's California Adventure in Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Chapek ran Disney's parks business before succeeding Bob Iger as CEO in February 2020. The board removed him on Nov. 20, 2022, and brought Iger back.
Here is what Chapek said Disney did, at his firing and after it, that led him to believe he was being scrubbed:Took his name off the company history.
"If there was a straw that broke the camel's back, it was being removed from the company history," he said. "It's not enough that they demolished me. They're still at it.
" Left him off the guest list for Disney's 100th anniversary. "I planned the damn event. Didn't even get invited to it.
" Left him off the guest list for the 10th anniversary of Shanghai Disney Resort, which he says"probably still wouldn't be open" had he not been asked to step in. Gave him no chance to write a goodbye note to the company's 200,000 employees. He put one at the end of the book instead. Agreed to show him the press release announcing his exit before it went out, then put it out"half an hour later.
"He traced the rift back to a moment about a month into his tenure, when the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Disney's theme parks and other businesses. Iger gave an interview to the New York Times, announcing that he was reasserting himself as CEO, Chapek said.
"Never talked to me about it. ""I wouldn't forecast that to happen, especially now, but it wasn't going to happen anyway, because, remember, I don't exist," he said.
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