Why is Christi Paul leaving CNN?

CNN weekend anchor, Christi Paul announced on air that she’s leaving the news network.

After almost 20 years with CNN and HLN, New Day Weekend anchor, Paul tearfully bid farewell, revealing that she was doing her last show and was part of the so-called “Great Resignation” a movement wherein people abandon steady employment for other opportunities.

The now-former anchor said the decision was made in January, claiming that her early morning weekend schedule interfered with her role as a wife and mother.

She and her family are moving back to her home state of Ohio where she will be joining another news station, though she remained mum on the details of her new gig. “At some point, my husband and I looked at each other and said, “We need to get back home, she told her co-host, Boris Sanchez.