Megyn Kelly she is not holding back the celebrities who made a bad impression on her.
In an interview with Daily Mail published on Tuesday. On Dec. 30, Kelly, 55, revealed Jane Fonda she was the first to “come to mind” when discussing stars with whom she had unpleasant interactions.
Kelly spoke to Fonda, now 88, in 2017 while she was working today. Kelly recalled Fonda reprimanding her for a question about plastic surgery, but the news personality claimed she broached the subject to steer Fonda away from a discussion about her sex scenes with the deceased. Robert Redford in his movie Our souls in the night.
“What happened in that segment, Robert Redford was on, his PR person came up to me and said, ‘For God’s sake, don’t talk about his sex scenes,'” Kelly claimed.
Megyn Kelly has found herself in the middle of several surprising feuds over the years. In 2017, Kelly asked Jane Fonda about aging and plastic surgery. “Do we really want to talk about this now?” Fonda responded on an episode of Megyn Kelly Today, to which the reporter replied, “Well, one of the things that people think (…)
Kelly alleged that Redford’s representative told her the actor was “uncomfortable” with the subject and asked her to “steer” Fonda in a different direction. Kelly claimed she followed through on the request, which seemed to make Fonda unhappy.
“She was offended that he wasn’t driving her there,” Kelly alleged. “I really wanted to talk about their sex scenes.”
Kelly also claimed that Bruce Willis she stood up to her during a 2006 Fox News interview.
“He came in and was clearly unhappy to be there,” she claimed Die Hard actor “I mean, that’s fine, he has his politics, but why agree to come?”
Kelly alleged Willis, 70, was “so insensitive” and “so ungenerous”. While the interaction wasn’t great from Kelly’s point of view, she confessed that she felt bad sharing her experience amid Willis’ ongoing battle with dementia.
“And I hate to say it because of how he’s struggling now. But it was nasty,” he said.
Kelly also hinted that she had tension today show legend Al Roker.
“Let’s just say if my mom met Al Roker, she would become her Larry David run into Alan Dershowitz on Martha’s Vineyard very quickly,” he said, referring to an alleged altercation between the pair.
Kelly did not elaborate on her drama with Roker, 71.
While Kelly named several stars she had negative interactions with, she did share which celebrities have been kind to her over the years.
“milo (Yiannopoulos) (is a) total charmer,” Kelly said, adding that the former Breitbart editor is “as nice as he is on camera.”
Kelly added that she was also “very impressed.” Russell Brandthat he was “completely warm” when they met. Jada Pinkett SmithMeanwhile, she was “so sweet, so sincere and (and) so genuine” when Kelly interviewed her in 2018.
“I’m still his fan,” Kelly said of Pinkett Smith, 54.
Kelly also spoke highly of her former NBC co-star Kathie Lee Giffordas “he was kind to me during what was one of the most unpleasant years of my life.”
“When the people on the Today show didn’t give me a warm welcome, treating me like NBC’s red-headed stepson, they took me out,” Kelly de Gifford, 72, recalled. “He met my family.”