US reporter Williams says he is taking himself off air "for a few days", in the midst of inquiries over false claims he experienced harsh criticism in Iraq.
Williams said it had gotten to be "horrendously obvious" that he was an excess of a piece of the news.
He more than once recounted a tale about being shot down in a helicopter in Iraq however veterans questioned his record.
Williams, the most-viewed system grapple in the US, faulted the "haze of memory" for the omission.
In an announcement, he said he would not be introducing his daily NBC show for a few days while the system explored his cases.
"Upon my return, I will proceed with my profession long push to be deserving of the trust of the individuals who place their trust in us," he included.
'I committed an error'
On Wednesday, Williams made a statement of regret on air over his Iraq story.
"I committed an error in reviewing the occasions of 12 years back," he said. "I need to apologize. I said I was going in a flying machine that was hit by RPG [rocket-impelled grenade] fire. I was rather in a taking after air ship."
His statement of regret came after veterans who were on the helicopter that was hit tested his rendition of occasions.
One of them, Flight specialist Lance Reynolds, composed: "Sorry buddy, I don't recall that you being on my airplane. I do recollect that you strolling up about an hour after we had arrived to ask me what had happened."
Inquiries have likewise been raised about his scope of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with one wellbeing authority testing a case he contracted diarrhea giving an account of the occasion.
Paul Levinson, educator of correspondences and media learns at New York City's Fordham University, called Williams' prerogative a decent thought for him and NBC News.
"It provides for him an opportunity to slow down and, on a human level, it must be agonizing to get reporting in real time and report the news and not say anything in regards to this," he told AP News org.
NBC News, Prof Levinson included, needed to "be in the matter of writing about the news, and not have individuals considering, 'is he telling the truth?'''
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