Megyn Kelly Says CNN Allegedly Firing Don Lemon Through His Agent Is ‘Classless’

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Megyn Kelly spoke out about Don Lemon getting fired by CNN — and seemingly took his side after the reporter alleged that he wasn’t given any notice.“No, no, he’s, he’s not wrong,” Kelly, 52, said during the Monday, April 24, episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show. “I mean, everybody knows I’m not exactly Don Lemon’s fan, but he’s not wrong … if that’s true.”The former Megyn Kelly Today host noted that if Lemon, 57, “was just told by his agent he was fired and [the network] didn’t have the balls to tell him man to man.

I mean, that’s just classless.” She added: “He’s got a right to complain about that.”Kelly’s executive producer Steve Krakauer confirmed that he watched Lemon “on air this morning” shortly before news broke on Monday that he was let go from CNN after 17 years.“Oh, my God.

So that’s a, you’re escorted out of the building kind of situation,” the journalist, who made headlines of her own in 2018 when she was fired from NBC following comments about blackface, alleged.The Settle for More author noted that Lemon getting fired isn’t that shocking — in February, he raised eyebrows after making sexist comments about former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, for which he later apologized — but the way in which it allegedly transpired is suspect.“Something must have happened there.

I feel like, Steve, something must have happened there. Something else must have come out,” Kelly concluded. “So there must have been something, like a final straw.”Lemon announced via Twitter on Monday that he was no longer working at CNN — weeks after Variety published a report about his alleged misogynist behavior.“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN,” he claimed. “I am stunned.