Brian Williams was recently let go from his 10 year job as NBC Nightly News anchor and the story surrounding his dismissal still isn’t quite clear.

Headlines across the country report “Liar Brian Williams is suicidal!” and “Brian Williams Takes Break from NBC After Helicopter Story Scandal.” But according to some sources, more than one factor contributed to the Williams scandal.

On January 30, 2015, Williams started his career downfall by allegedly lying on air. He started saying that a U.S. Air Force helicopter he rode in during the Iraq war was “hit and crippled by enemy fire,” a story he also shared about a year ago on the Late Show with David Letterman. But the military men he was with exposed the true story. He was in one of four helicopters and while one was fired at, Williams’ chopper was completely unharmed and landed safely.

On February 4, 2015, Williams apologized for miscommunicating the story, saying he was sorry he “misremembered” what happened. On February 10, 2015, NBC News President Deborah Turness announced that Williams was suspended without pay for six months.

When Williams came on Stars & Stripes to apologize, he didn’t make things much easier on himself when he said, “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”      And this is not the first time Williams has stretched the truth. In 2005, he had an award-winning Hurricane Katrina story that some sources are concerned was not entirely true. He stated the hotel he stayed in was full of “marauding gangs” and there was a corpse floating outside his window. These allegations were later refuted by the hotel’s general manager at the time.  “If it was just one time then maybe okay but not for multiple stories. The only information the public is getting is through him and the news,” said junior Leighanne Yeargain.  As a result, many people have started to question Williams’ other stories and whether he actually told the truth most of the time.

Sources close to Williams say he’s in the worst place he has ever been. An insider explained that “Brian’s not a liar by trade, but he loves being a star. I think in some ways, he let the fame go to his head.” Richard Esposito, executive producer of NBC’s investigative unit, says he has major doubts that Williams will ever regain his job as an anchor. “Probably not [upon returning] I think it’s wrong, so many people are believing these things and it’s affecting their lives,” said junior Melissa Delcher.