Reporting from The New York Post last week claimed Don Lemon had an “outburst” on CNN This Morning co-host Kaitlan Collins for stepping on one another during the Thursday, December 8th show. SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly said if a similar situation had happened while she was at Fox News, she would have had that co-host fired.
“I’ve co-hosted more hours than I can count with a lot of guys with big egos — appropriately big egos — and never — never — have I screamed at a colleague or had him scream at me,” Kelly said. “We’ve had charged disagreements. Had a charged disagreement with Chris Wallace one time. We’re never screaming at each other, and you pick it up right after. If somebody ever screamed at me to the point where I was visibly upset and ran out of the studio, I would have that person fired. I would make sure that person was fired.”
The comments from Kelly came after she mentioned she was in the same position as Collins with some of her former Fox News colleagues, but it never resulted in raising their voices at one another.
“I co-hosted a show with Bill Hemmer for three years. I was on the air with Bret Baier more times than I can count. And sometimes somebody gets on your nerves,” said Kelly. “What you don’t do is scream at them after the fact. Later you say ‘Oh, we stepped on each other’.”
“It’s all about servicing the audience, if you’re a professional,” continued Kelly. “If you’re a douchebag, you scream at the woman next to you and blame it on her.”
Kelly concluded by stating that it is likely Collins is not the first co-worker Lemon has screamed at, and if The New York Post continued digging, they would find another female anchor to corroborate that Lemon has a history of this conduct.
