Former CNN anchor Valerie Hoff DeCarlo died last week at the age of 62 following a battle with lung cancer, her husband, Derrick DeCarlo , confirmed to the Atlanta Journal Constitution .

“She was a force with everything she did,” he said. “She was a strong, capable, loving woman and a wonderful mother.”

DeCarlo was initially hired by CNN as a writer in 1990 before working as an anchor on CNN Headline News and the now-defunct CNN Airport network, having also reported on fashion, money and nutrition. The veteran journalist eventually left the cable news network for 11Alive in Atlanta in 1999, a role she held until April 2017 when she was exposed for having used the N-word in a private Twitter conversation on the station's account.

DeCarlo sought permission from Curtis

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