Connie Chung accused her former CBS News co-anchor Dan Rather of having an “inherent bias against women” and complained to colleagues that she was a “second-rate journalist,” according to her exposé.

Chung, the first Asian American woman to anchor a major news program, said Rather was condescending from the beginning after CBS executives brought them together in 1993 as his ratings were declining.

“I’ll be out there in the field covering the stories and you’ll be reading the teleprompter,” Chung quotes him as saying in her memoir, “Connie,” released Tuesday.

He also told the trailblazing journalist, who had interviewed world leaders and American lawmakers as the host of the Sunday talk show “Face the Nation,” that she “should start reading the newspaper,” Chung said.

During their tumultuous two years together at the CBS Evening News, Rather was “uptight and humorless,” with “an inherent bias against women,” she writes.

“I think even if they had put a dog or a cat or a plant as his co-host, it wouldn’t have made any difference,” added Chung, who is married to former talk show host Maury Povich.

“I just happened to be the one who, uh, got his fertilizer sprayed all over me.”

Rather led a whispering campaign among TV critics and journalistic colleagues to smear Chung, writing that her journalistic skills were not up to par.

Chung, 78, cited an earlier memoir by correspondent Bernard Goldberg in which Rather “spent hours and hours on the phone with TV writers, portraying Connie Chung as a second-rate journalist” during her coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Rather, who was on vacation at the time, was furious with The New York Times, saying that standing on the sidelines while covering the event “was like trying to swallow ball bearings wrapped in barbed wire,” Chung wrote.

Shortly after the terrorist attack, Rather issued an ultimatum to CBS director Peter Lund and Chung was ousted shortly thereafter, she claimed.

previously denied having anything to do with her departure.

“Nobody has heard a critical comment from me about Connie” and her removal “came as a surprise to us,” he told the Washington Post at the time.

The Post has reached out to Rather for comment.

Chung, who also worked at ABC, CNN and MSNBC during his decades-long career, alleged that Rather’s alleged sexist attitudes toward female journalists were widespread throughout the industry.

“A lot of men in television news, especially those who became presenters, got a disease: big-shot-itis,” Chung wrote.

“It was characterized by swelling of the head, an inability to stop talking, self-aggrandizing behavior, narcissistic tendencies, ruthless arrogance, delusions of grandeur, and fantasies about sexual prowess.”

Chung said she has spent much of her career working with white men, or in rooms surrounded by them.

Sexism continued to haunt her throughout her career, and critics were eager to point out mistakes.

A 1995 interview with the mother of Newt Gingrich, whose son was then the new speaker of the House of Representatives, went off the rails due to a network decision, Chung wrote in her memoir.

During the interview, Gingrich’s mother told Chung that she couldn’t say what her son thought about then-first lady Hillary Clinton. Chung told her to whisper the answer in her ear.

Gingrich’s mother whispered that her son had called Clinton a bitch, and Chung’s microphone picked it up.

CBS aired that rumor as a standalone segment, making it appear as though Chung had misled Gingrich’s mother. It also sparked debate over whether Chung should have gone off the record with the quote.

The scandal became known as “B-tchgate” in the television industry. Chung said she wished she had pushed for CBS to support her at the time, but it didn’t.

Throughout her career, she experienced sexual harassment from colleagues and others.

At 25, she was assigned to cover the presidential campaign of Sen. George McGovern, who tried to kiss her in a dark hallway, she told USA Today.

Former President Jimmy Carter once pressed his leg against hers during a dinner, “and he looked at me and smiled,” she told USA Today.

Chung said she had to develop “armor” to deal with her sexist colleagues.

“I decided I was going to be a man,” she told the “Today” show. “I was going to have bravado, I was going to have guts, I was going to have a bad, sassy mouth.”