After Olympic skater Gabriella Papadakis's controversial memoir was released earlier this week, NBC is making a change to their broadcast team. The French ice dancer released her book, Pour ne pas disparaître (So as Not to Disappear), on Thursday, January 17. Soon after, NBC pulled Papadakis off their Winter Olympics coverage because of what the network is calling a "conflict of interest." "We respect Gabriella's right to tell the story of her life and career. At the same time, her new book creates a clear conflict of interest," NBC said to Sportico in a statement. "Our responsibility is to deliver coverage that our audience can trust to be free of bias-whether actual or perceived-and we regret that is no longer possible given the circumstances." In the book, Papadakis, 30, describes her former partner, Guillaume Cizeron, as "controlling, demanding" and "critical" during their time as partners. Olympic Ice Dancer Accuses Partner of 'Smear Campaign' Against Him She added that eventually she refused to skate with him without a coach present and often felt she was "under his grip." Papadakis told Agence France-Presse earlier this week that NBC called her "a few days ago because after the cease-and-desist from my former partner, they changed their minds, which makes me very sad." She has worked for NBC as recently as last week, providing ice dance analysis at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Cizeron responded to Papadakis' allegations via a statement to French media on Thursday, calling the memoir a "smear campaign." Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP via Getty Images "In the face of this smear campaign, I want to express my incomprehension and disagreement with the labels attributed to me," he said. "The book contains false information, including statements I never made, which I consider serious. For more than 20 years, I have shown deep respect for Gabriella Papadakis, despite the gradual erosion of our bond, our relationship was built on equal collaboration and marked by success and mutual support." Cizeron, 31, added that he has instructed his lawyers to "put all parties involved on notice to immediately cease the dissemination of defamatory statements about me." Papadakis and Cizeron were childhood skating partners until their split in 2024. They won the Olympic gold medal in 2022 and won silver in 2018 while skating for Team France. They have also won five World Championship gold medals together between 2015 and 2022. Cizeron is preparing to skate in the 2026 Winter Games with his new partner, Laurence Fournier Beaudry, in the midst of this new controversy. Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner's History Explained Ice dancing is set to begin on Friday, February 6, the same day as the opening ceremony in Milan, Italy. Papadakis has since retired from competing. Her memoir also dives into her early life, where she claims she faced instances of sexual abuse. She also takes aim at the culture around ice dancing, explaining that because it is designed for the man to lead and the woman to follow, men hold power in the sport. "I'm not suffering because I was sexually abused when I was younger, but because I continue, day after day, to find myself in situations where my body doesn't belong to me," she writes. "I'm there without really being there, half-inhabiting this body that mechanically performs the actions it's ordered to do." If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).