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Top-rated SiriusXM podcast host Megyn Kelly discusses her tenure at Fox News as well as the sexual harassment she says she faced while employed there in an upcoming interview.
Kelly opened up about her experiences during a long-form interview with former U.S. Navy SEAL and military contractor Shawn Ryan.
“It sounds like the sexual harassment was just running rampant throughout the entire Fox News organization. Is that an accurate assumption?” asked Ryan at the outset of the teaser.
“I think it was pretty, pretty common,” she responded.
After she was asked to speak about other females at the network who may have been victimized, Kelly also recalled how she “didn’t want this person to speak clear- to run to human resources.”
“I wasn’t like, ‘Let’s make a record, this is inappropriate.’ I was like, ‘Please help me,’” she said.
At another point in the interview teaser, Ryan asked how “it” started.
“I was very young. I was at the very beginning of my career there, still a reporter in DC, and Roger [Ailes] took an interest in me early on. It wasn’t all because he wanted to sleep with me,” said Kelly. “I think he understood he had somebody who was a lawyer and that he really wanted to develop it, because above all, he was a capitalist. He wanted to make money.”
She also said that although there was some “goodness” in the ‘Me Too’ movement, it “was so disgusting by its end. So corrupted and unjust and devoid of due process and such a witch hunt.”
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Shawn: “It sounds like the sexual harassment was just running rampant throughout the entire Fox News organization. Is that an accurate assumption?
Megyn: “It was pretty common, yeah.” @megynkelly pic.twitter.com/T4HcM1W6tI
— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) September 4, 2024
Kelly worked at Fox from 2004 to 2017. Ailes, the longtime CEO of Fox News, resigned in 2016, shortly after reports emerged that Kelly was among those who had been harassed by him.
Kelly’s SiriusXM show is one of the most popular on the platform thanks to her fiesty style and no-holds-barred approach. For instance, last month Kelly tore into Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez over the tenor of the New York democratic socialist’s speech at her party’s convention, comparing it to that of a World War II dictator.
“When I saw people on the internet praising her last night, even some Republicans, like, ‘Oh, that was a great speech,’ I thought, have you never actually seen an effective female public speaker? Like, they mistake energy or like enthusiasm for effectiveness,” she said during a Wednesday show segment.
“I mean, anyone can get up there and shout at you! [Shouting] She can shout at you! It doesn’t make you a good public speaker. It was like an assault. Right? Don’t you feel assaulted by what I just did? That’s how I felt listening to her,” Kelly continued.
Kelly then played a clip of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) speech at the DNC in 2004 before adding: “That’s what AOC was going for. That’s what they all go for. They fail. There’s only one Barack Obama. There will never be another Barack Obama. I’m sorry, find your own style. You’re not good at imitation.”
“She was a cross between Hilaria [Baldwin], who went to a fancy boarding school in either Boston or Rhode Island and isn’t Spanish at all, and also this guy,” she said before playing a short clip of dictator Benito Mussolini. “You may remember him from World War II as the leader of Italy.”
In June, Kelly engaged in tense exchanges with NewsNation host Dan Abrams in her defense of former President Donald Trump, insisting he was “wrong” to support the guilty verdict in New York over “hush money” payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg brought 34 felony counts against Trump, all of which were supported by a jury.