As Shari Redstone steps away from studio mogul life following the sealing of the $8 billion deal to transfer ownership of Paramount Global to Oracle heir David Ellison and his Skydance Media, she’s now ready to go public on that 13-month process.

And Redstone is particularly candid about what she says she didn’t know about some of the dealmaking that needed to get done to clear the merger. In a series of interviews with James Stewart, who specializes in longform CEO retrospectives at The New York Times , Redstone spoke freely with a condition that the interview couldn’t be published until after a deal closed.

As Shari Redstone steps away from studio mogul life following the sealing of the $8 billion deal to transfer ownership of Paramount Global to Oracle heir David Ellison and

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