My flabber has been gasted .

Gayle King, you should’ve taken this one to the grave, babe.

Earlier this week, Gayle introducedCBS Mornings' viewers to#PieGate— an incident involving the talk show host, a food delivery, and an obliterated piece of pie.

“I ordered a delicious coconut custard pie,” Gayle explained while showing the audience what she was expecting to receive. “This is what it’s supposed to look like, with creamy egg, custard filling. Now, this sounds good.”

“So that’s what I ordered,” Gayle added. “This is what I received. I sent this picture to the company to complain about how it arrived.”

“I wondered if it had been eaten or just jostled during delivery because it was such a mess. The company said they were mortified.”

Gayle refused to reveal the name of the company because she’s still a big fan of them; she even placed an order with them the morning of this broadcast. After filing her complaint, even the company told her that the pie looked like someone ate it and they thought it might have been her doorman.

But Gayle shut down the accusation, revealing she really liked her doormen and had a great rapport with all of them. Gayle then asked her cohosts what they thought of the ordeal, and they all had a similar view, which ranged from, “It looks eaten,” to “It looks half-gone.”

When asked what she ended up doing with the pie, Gayle’s answer left everyone speechless: “I ate it.” But the silence didn’t last long, because it was then followed by echoes of “EWW!”

“I’d been thinking about it for three days,” Gayle confessed. “I hadn’t had a sweet in three days, and I just couldn’t believe this company would send me something that was half-eaten.”

“I did not think it had been eaten. I honest to god thought it had been jostled, until I started asking people.”

Here’s how people online reacted:

Now, I’ve heard of the five-second rule when it comes to food, but this takes things to a whole new level.

You can watch Gayle recount the tale below. Watch part two with her best friend, Oprah,here.

Gayle King on the red carpet at a Caring for Women event, wearing an elegant dark strapless dress with a red, flame-like design at the bottom, holding a clutch

Gayle King discussing "Pie-gate pt. 2" on set. There is an emoji of a pie with wide eyes

A slice of pie with a flaky crust and creamy filling on a plate, with the whole pie in the background

Gayle King smiling in an animal print dress at an InStyle magazine event

Half-eaten slice of pie in a clear plastic container

A slice of half-eaten pie with a flaky crust and creamy filling in a plastic container on a dark surface

Gayle King smiles wearing a sleeveless, multi-colored striped dress at an event

Gayle King in a sleeveless dress and sandals at the premiere of "Divorce in the Black"

Gayle King laughs while sitting on a couch during the filming of CBS This Morning. She is wearing a colorful floral dress and glasses

Gayle King smiles on the red carpet in a floral one-shoulder gown

Gayle King smiles at an event, wearing a form-fitting, long-sleeved dress with a pink and purple tie-dye pattern

Instagram comment by knitreader: "I almost fell off my chair when she said she ate it! Oh Gayle"

Comment from ariannagab: "Knowing Gayle I literally said at the beginning 'I know she still ate it either way'" with a laughing-crying emoji

Comment from @msnessabee: "Now Gayle! If it had been jostled, then where is the jostled part?"

Instagram comment by 7taryn9 reading "Her heart told her mind to hush"

Comment by _shellbsta: "There's no way half the pie jostled away" with three laughing-crying face emojis

A comment by sumarfraz1: "I was sipping on my morning tea and when Nate asked the question and Gayle hesitated I almost choked. I was screaming NO GAYLE NO" with two sick emojis and four crying-laughing emojis