Failed TV morning host Megyn Kelly is trying to revise history.
In a new interview with Business Insider, the 50-year-old claims she left her short-lived gig as an NBC morning host because it just wasn’t “intellectually stimulating” enough for her.
“To be perfectly honest, the job wasn’t intellectually stimulating for me,” she claims.
This, of course, is completely 100% false. Kelly didn’t leave NBC on her own accord. The network terminated her contract after she made racist remarks about blackface then issued a half-assed apology.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Just in case you need a refresher: Megyn Kelly Today ran for a total of one season back in 2017-2018. The show, which had terrible ratings, was panned by critics and audiences alike, who called her “awkward” and “chilly” and who criticized her interviewing skills.
In one episode, she stupidly asked a Will & Grace fan if the show inspired him to be gay. In another episode, she grilled Jane Fonda about her plastic surgery then got very aggressive when the actress didn’t appreciate it.
But it was a comment she made about blackface that ultimately did her in.
During a panel discussion about Halloween costumes, Kelly, who believes Santa Claus is white, claimed blackface was “OK when I was a kid as long as you were dressing like a character” and that she didn’t think it was racist. A backlash ensued and she issued an apology, saying she’s “never been a PC kind of person.”
Audiences didn’t buy the apology, however, and the network canned her, prompting in her agency to hire a lawyer to negotiate a massive severance package rumored to be around $80 million.
Speaking to Business Insider this week, Kelly compares her stint as a morning show host to her first marriage, which also failed, saying it didn’t work out but that she doesn’t regret it because it’s “part of the journey that gets you to where you are.”
“I had this soaring career at Fox that was great by any measure, but I was miserable at home,” she says. “It was too stressful, too much time away from my family and my kids, and then I overcorrected at NBC by going too soft.”
Today, Kelly works out of her basement, recording a daily podcast, on which she blabbers about the topics that are most important to her, like how much she hates Meghan Markle, how she’s moving her family out of New York City because it’s not racist enough for her, and how pissed off she is about Gone With The Wind being “canceled.”
“Now I feel like I have the best of both worlds,” Kelly tells Business Insider. “I’m fired up and making a difference.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
LumpyPillows
I do keep hoping that at some point republicans will wake up and stop being so terrible. I know it is naïve of me to hope this, but I do. Along comes someone like Megyn and I think there might be some hope, but alas, she is just pretty terrible to the core. For every Ana Navarro and Adam Kinzinger there are thousands of these Megyn nightmares.
Mack
It’s kind of hard when the Party’s make up is mostly white supremacists and KKK members.
Kangol2
She is a perfect example of utter mediocrity failing upwards. No talent, few skills as a journalist or interviewer, racist, bad attitude, can’t tell the truth, failed the biggest test when they gave her her own show (which she didn’t deserve and which struggled in the ratings), yet she keeps being given these opportunities. WHY? The next time someone utters the words “affirmative action” remind them of the countless cases like Megyn Kelly’s!
MissTerri
Did they somehow leave out the Debate where she called out Trump on his Sexism?? Guess that wouldn’t Fit the Narrative!!! Quality Journalism!!!!!! Hi-LAR-ious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LumpyPillows
Yeah, she made one point that was near and dear to her and then never did another positive thing. In many ways it was selfish on her part. So, try again.
Hdtex
MissTerri, that anal prolapse of yours is skidding on the ground again.
Get it fixed. It smells of death.
jcool
i guess they left out the part about calling out trump because it had nothing to do with the story they were writing. has anyone else noticed that the less relevant this troll’s comments are, the more exclamation points she adds?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jw8890
Is “Hi-LAR-ious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The only damn thing you know how to end a sentence with? Periods exist, which you would know as you seem to always be on yours…
Fahd
Setting aside what a “non-PC” type of person she really is, the idea that she received that enormous severance because she was just so bad that she just had to go (no matter what) makes me sick- there are children all over the world going hungry. I don’t need to hear about her ever again.
Jack
GOD! Well said. We are so used to this lunacy that we don’t stop to think that this no talent failure got EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS to go away.
Metro135
I was going to write the same thing. $80 million for being a f*cking, ignorant asshole. NBC wasn’t “stimulating” enough for her? It’s “intellectually stimulating” to ask Jane Fonda about plastic surgery? That was her choice, I’m sure. and not NBC’s.
ScottOnEarth
Not surprisingly, Graham Gremore got it wrong. At the time this all happened, the real reports were that she was negotiating payment of what remained of her $40 million contract, which was a multi-year arrangement. While she certainly received a small fortune, it was absolutely not anywhere near $80 million.
Jack
Ugh. Who opened up her crypt? The idea of Megyn Kelly being stimulated by anything makes me laugh out loud. She is the intellectual equivalent of Velveeta on stale Wonder Bread.
ScottOnEarth
Great comment, Jack! 🙂
Jim
Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. You have to have an intellect in order to stimulate it!
She is one of the many vacuous talking heads on tv that have the “gift of gab” and not much else.
Cam
Typical Republican. Lying about what everybody saw happen.
barryaksarben
YOU NAILED IT. The GOP and its stupid rabble keep telling us not to believe our eyes. We see them and hate what they stand for. GREED and RACISM, SEXISM. HOMOPHOBIA and DIVISION
Man About Town
If I remember correctly, the reason Jane Fonda appeared on the show, along with Robert Redford, was to discuss their new film “Our Souls at Night,” but instead, Megyn asked Jane about plastic surgery and Redford about when he achieved “hunk status.” If I were them I would have gotten up and walked out, and here she is complaining it wasn’t “intellectually stimulating.” Got it.
Invader7
Another republithug NO talent charlatan two faced HYPOCRITE… She’s toxic trash !!!
barryaksarben
WORST INTERVIEWER E V E R!!!!!
Seth
May obscurity devour her.