A former special prosecutor on the case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia canceled a national television interview at the eleventh hour over the weekend, citing a family emergency.

Nathan Wade, who resigned from his position with the Fulton County district attorney’s office last week, backed out of the interview late Saturday night, the evening before it was scheduled to take place Sunday morning on Meet the Press, according to a statement from the show.

The appearance was set to be the first time Wade would speak publicly about a scandal between him and District Attorney Fani Willis that derailed the Trump case for roughly two months.

Trump and several co-defendants in the case had moved to disqualify Willis in January after uncovering that she had been involved in an undisclosed romantic relationship with Wade while he was working on the case. They alleged she had a conflict of interest in part because she took vacations with Wade, to whom she was paying a lucrative wage with taxpayer money for his work as a prosecutor on the Trump case.

Willis adamantly denied she had a conflict of interest, but a judge ruled on Friday that she had shown a “tremendous lapse in judgment” by dating Wade after hiring him and that she could keep her job only if Wade left his position. Wade resigned within hours.

It is unclear what the nature of Wade’s emergency was, and his law firm’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Wade, who is a practicing attorney in Georgia, still faces the prospect of an appeals process playing out over the conflict of interest question, and state lawmakers have also vowed to investigate Willis and Wade independently of the court.

Amid news Wade had agreed to appear for a televised interview, several legal analysts criticized him on social media for the decision.

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“The ‘family emergency’ was presumably a lawyer with better judgment than Wade urging him to exercise his right to remain silent,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said.

Another Georgia-based attorney said that “the family emergency was a sensible person slapping [Wade] at maximum velocity,” while another speculated that Wade “learned quickly that a lot of folks defending him stopped at as soon as he became useless to them.”