Once upon a time,the stunning Megyn Kellywas a lawyer.
Kelly’s caustic style also won her legions of critics, however.
“I regret a lot of what I’ve said,” she toldBusiness Insiderin 2017.
That’s just the reality, you know?.
So, yeah, there’s a lot I’d like to go back and say differently."
Here are eleven controversies that will always follow Megyn Kelly.
I mean, Jesus was a white man, too."
“All I can tell you is, I think the lens is a truth-teller,” she said.
In a video processing her reaction to the film (viaInstagram), Kelly said that really happened.
“In retrospect, I’d give anything if I had said, ‘No.'”
“They stay silent so often out of fear.”
When she was unexpectedly confronted by Kelly live on air, however, she looked unhappy.
Fonda looked baffled by the question, asking, “We really want to talk about that?”
A few months later, Fonda addressed the incident in an interview withVariety.
She explained that she wasn’t upset, just surprised.
“It was so inappropriate,” Fonda said.
“It showed that she’s not that good an interviewer.”
Kelly took issue with that, hitting back at the “80 For Brady” star on her show.
“I have no regrets about that question,” she said (viaYouTube).
When the interview actually aired, Kelly acknowledged the furor surrounding the segment.
In other words, no one won.
“What is racist?”
she asked (viaYouTube).
“I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween,” Kelly said.
This is a racist guy.
He really is a racist guy and he hates our country.
He hates America."
“This is outrageous.”
She explained that the WNBA depended on Black women, but they didn’t always get the credit.
“I have to continue to make a run at change that,” she said.
“The more we can elevate Black women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing.”
“Hello, you don’t own the league!
Blacks don’t own the league!”
She said, “One of my best skills is just blocking things out.”
When she missed a press conference at the Open, she was fined, and she chose to withdraw.
That wasn’t okay with Kelly, who lashed out on social media.
After all, she noted, Osaka had posed on the covers of magazines before.
“Truth is she just doesn’t like Qs she can’t control.
She added, “Michael Phelps told me that by speaking up I may have saved a life.
If that’s true, then it was all worth it.”
She took toInstagramto point out that Kelly may want to take another look at the show.
“TV doesn’t get too much more ‘woke’ than we did,” Gilbert pointed out.
She pointed out that the show was reflecting the 1970s.
“He was telling the stories of racism and chauvinism and antisemitism and nativism.”
Boycotts ensued, and Mulvaney received death threats.
Never one to pass up an opportunity for outrage, Megyn Kelly joined in.
This Dylan character is humiliating womankind.”
In posts on X, Kelly called Mulvaney a man and hurled plenty of other insults.
Mulvaney opened up about the frightening situation toForbes.
And we should not let them win."
