“It was as crazy a night as you can imagine,” CNN host Larry King said of a scheduled Tuesday night interview with Dr. Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother Dr. Donda West shortly before her death.

Dr. Adams showed up late to the interview, only to sit with Larry King briefly to announce that he would not do the interview. He then removed his earpiece and walked off the set.

In an interview Wednesday with CNN in New York, Larry King spoke out about the interview-gone-wrong, saying that what happened with Dr. Adams was a first:

Jan Adams told producers that he had received a letter from the West family requesting that he not go on the air, and that out of respect for the family he would not do the interview.

Dr. Donda West was laid to rest Tuesday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.