Here’s what you need to know about Fox News’ Megyn Kelly
It culminated in a physical attempt to be with me, which I rejected in his office and then I contacted a lawyer. And trust me, this doesn’t just happen at Fox News. “And then he crossed a new line – trying to grab me repeatedly and kiss me on the lips”.
The Fox News host said that Ailes was “explicit as you can be” in making it clear he was interested in having a sexual relationship with Kelly, what at that time had just recently joined the network.
Kelly added that it would’ve been a “suicide mission” for her career had she spoke about the incidents sooner.
Kelly did not disclose details of her private meeting with Trump on Good Morning America, but said while neither party has apologized, they have moved on.
She acknowledged her actions led to some tensions with other people within Fox, because Ailes had engendered much loyalty.
She was asked by the hosts if her new book makes the company look bad, she replied saying: “I believe Roger Ailes made the company look bad”.
“I didn’t know whether it was just me and just Gretchen”, she said. And I had a company that had my back.
Ailes, for the record, has denied all of Kelly’s allegations.
Roger Ailes is famous, and infamous, for many things.
“I’m sure he does feel betrayed by me”, she said.
Megyn Kelly reveals how her family was affected by her feud with president-elect Donald Trump during the 2015 republican primary presidential election. And with that, we know now, for a certainty, that we can count on Megyn Kelly to defend Bannon and Trump, no matter what godawful shit they do next.
During Wednesday’s interview, Kelly placed the onus of embarrassing the company exclusively on Ailes.
Megyn Kelly opened up about past advances from former Fox News boss Roger Ailes in an interview on “Good Morning America” Tuesday morning.
“No question he is thin-skinned and can be mean-spirited and vindictive”, she said.
“If a President Trump were to come after a journalist the way the candidate Trump came after me, I think it could be potentially unsafe”, Kelly said Wednesday during an interview on “CBS This Morning”. “I don’t think that’s right”, O’Reilly explained.
She’s a mom. Kelly has three children (Edward, 7, Yardley, 5, and Thatcher, 3) with her second husband, Douglas Brunt. A low point came when her daughter returned home from school and asked her mother what a bimbo was. She said she had been at the company a short time and realized that Ailes was like a king there. “I didn’t want to aggravate his supporters anymore, over whom Trump has an enormous effect”. However, Roger began pushing the limits well beyond humor; beyond anything I’d experienced, introducing explicit sexual innuendo into our conversations.
Harassment allegations may get you fired from Fox, but as we now know they don’t prevent you from winning the presidency. But it would be an expensive gambit. But she said a more current alleged victim came forward – although not publicly – with a story that “was deeply disturbing” and that plus the volume of accusations seemed to settle debate within the company.