Gayle King leaves fans disgusted after shocking confession that she devoured an uneaten piece of cake she was given at a restaurant

Gayle King left fans concerned after the “CBS Mornings” host told her co-hosts on Tuesday, September 10, how she made her food ordering experience even worse.

As images of the cake flashed on the screen, the 69-year-old began his story saying“Imagine this: I ordered a delicious coconut cream cake.” She paused in her story to say, “That’s how it’s supposed to be.”

To King’s surprise, the dessert turned out to be removed from what she expected.

Continuing her story, she said, “This is what I got.” A brand new photo of a slice of coconut cream cake appeared on the screen, but the underside half of the cake was completely invisible.

“I sent the photo to complain about how it was delivered,” King said. “I wondered if it had been eaten or if it had just been shaken during delivery because it was in such a mess. The company said they were embarrassed.”

According to King, the restaurant said, “It looks like someone ate half the cake,” before suggesting the doorman could take a bite. Gayle defended the doorman, saying, “Absolutely not. That was definitely not my doorman.”

King asked her co-hosts whether the piece was “shaken” or “half eaten.” Most responded that the cake looked half eaten, but Emmy Award-winning television host Ross Mathews took it a step further, noting that “it looks two-thirds eaten.”

When asked what happened to the piece, King smiled sheepishly and nodded, “I ate it.” The room erupted in laughter, and one of the co-hosts within the background shouted, “Ugh!”

Ross then asked, “Did you scrape off the part that was eaten?” But King suggested that she hadn’t. “Well, Ross, I didn’t think it was eaten. Honestly, I thought it was snatched until I started asking people,” King shared.

Fans couldn’t imagine the end result of her story and were even frightened. One concerned fan wrote: “@gayleking please go and get your tetanus and flu shot! Oh my god how could you put yourself in danger and eat that! Gayle do better we love you.”

Another person wrote: “You should have thrown that away. You don’t know if that person had strep throat or something. That’s someone else’s germs, gross.”

Other fans reacting to the story said, “So ONLY Gayle thinks this was hit??! The rest of America, including the company that sent it, thinks it was eaten in half!!! Damn it, Gayle.”

King, who apparently knows the restaurant, selected to guard them by remaining anonymous. Halfway through the clip, she said, “I’m not saying the name of the business because I really like it.”

And apparently she wasn’t all that disenchanted together with her experience, because she added, “I ordered something from them this morning.

The next day the king gave update to the story together with her best friend Oprah Winfrey on the show. After a quick recap, King shows surveillance footage from the lobby of her apartment constructing, showing a doorman bringing her food to the front desk.

“Here’s the delivery driver with my coconut cake. They’re bringing it in. We see him walk into the lobby. And he hands the bag to the doorman. Then we see the doorman go straight to the elevator and put it in the elevator,” she said.

Co-host Nate Burleson quickly chimed in with a joke, saying, “I don’t see any shoving.”

After the elevator reaches King’s apartment, the footage shows King taking a cake from the elevator. She says, “Thank God I was dressed, because sometimes I come in with a towel. Because there’s no one in there but me.”

King later said she asked Winfrey to share her thoughts on what happened to the cake. The Color Purple star said she told King, “Yeah, someone stuffed it in my stomach. That’s what happened. Half the cake is gone, and where is the cake, for God’s sake?”