Roger ailes3/8/2023 ![]() 'My dad was the kindest person I ever met He was my hero an I knew that he always had my back. Zachary, Ailes' son, is also interviewed. 'Donald as you might recall was not happy with her questions at the debate and Roger said, famously, the US is at war with various countries but Donald Trump is at war with Megyn Kelly. 'Roger went to bat for Megyn when Megyn and Donald Trump got into a Tweet war. She also speaks about how her late husband helped Kelly's career. In total, Ailes was accused of misconduct by at least eight women.īeth says that when the lawfirm conducted their investigation, he was never asked to tell his side of the story. Others, including Laurie Luhn - a former staffer - made their claims earlier. That is when Kelly, and other women at Fox, aired their allegations.Ĭharlize Theron as Megyn Kelly and John Lithgow as Roger Ailes in the 2019 movie Bombshell which tells the story from the perspective of Ailes' accusers It was another six months before the sexual harassment claims against Ailes became public when Gretchen Carlson, another of the network's hosts, sued the company.Īfter that, an investigation was launched by a law firm at the behest of Fox to try to weed out other misconduct. 'She turned on him in that very moment and he suspected she was leap frogging him and going directly to the Murdochs to talk directly about her contract.' 'When he told her that, Roger said her face changed. 'Roger called her into her office and he told me that night what happened - he said to her, "you shouldn't negotiate your contract in the press and you're forgetting Megyn, you're not the only one who gets to decide if you stay at Fox." 'Megyn Kelly was on the cover of a magazine and in the story she negotiated her contract in the press. The Vanity Fair journalist added: 'Note to television executives everywhere.'Īiles, Beth said, took her comments as her trying to negotiate her salary and contract in the press. In the interview, she said: 'I think that there’s a spiritual component to my personality that is completely unutilized in my current job.' Megyn Kelly accused Ailes of sexually harassing her when she was a reporterĪt the time, Kelly had done an interview with Vanity Fair in January 2016 when she was in the middle of salary negotiations. She says she knew of one affair he'd had but that he treated Fox staff professionally.Beth, in the documentary, also describes telling Roger she 'forgave' him on his deathbed.She claims Kelly 'turned on him that moment' months later, it emerged that she'd told investigators he'd sexually harassed her.Roger, Beth says, reminded her she wasn't 'the only one who decided if she stays at Fox'.She'd done an interview with Vanity Fair where she was she was 'unutilized'.Beth appears to suggest that Kelly turned on Ailes in January 2016 after he threatened to fire her.Her son Zachary, now 20, is also interviewed he calls his father the 'kindest man' he knew. ![]() She defends him against sexual harassment claims by Megyn Kelly.Elizabeth 'Beth' Ailes is interviewed in Man in the Arena, the new documentary about her late husband. ![]() Roger Ailes' widow Beth says Megyn Kelly 'turned on him' after he threatened to fire her as their son defends his 'kind' father in a rare interview for glowing new documentary Man in the Arena
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