Journalist Elizabeth Vargas closes 2019 Rancho Mirage speaker series
Former ABC News broadcaster Elizabeth Vargas rounded out the Rancho Mirage speaker series for 2019. Vargas spoke Tuesday night at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences in Rancho Mirage about her extensive career in the television news industry.
Her main focus of the evening was discussing mental health in America, addiction, and the opioid crisis, sharing her own battles with anxiety and alcoholism.
” People who look to you from the outside like they have it all together, and they won the lottery of life and everything looks easy, and great, and happy, and fun, you know, a lot of those people – most of those people are struggling with something, ” said Vargas. ” Everybody is struggling with something. ”
In an interview with News Channel 3′ s Kelley Moody before her presentation, Vargas said it’s now more important than ever for people to check the facts and do their research.
” We’re at a critical time in this country. In many ways, a scary time in this country, and I think it’s really important for all of us as Americans to lower the temperature a little bit , to take it upon ourselves to read a lot of different sources and use our own judgement and our own brains about what sounds true and what doesn’t, ” said Vargas.
Vargas left ABC News in 2018. She is now an investigative reporter with A&E Network. She has an upcoming series called The Untold Story, airing on April 11 on A&E Investigates. Vargas called it an exciting nine hour series of documentary-style content she reported and co-produced. More information available here.
