Megyn Kelly received the news of Don Lemon’s firing from CNN in real time during her April 24 podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show.” Kelly acknowledged Lemon’s reaction on Twitter and stated, “He’s not wrong. I mean, everybody knows I’m not exactly Don Lemon’s fan, but he’s not wrong. If that’s true, that he was just told by his agent he was fired, and they didn’t have the balls to tell him man-to-man, that’s just classless. He’s got a right to complain about that.” The former Fox News anchor was informed that Lemon was on air that same morning, to which she replied, “Oh my God. So that’s a you’re escorted out of the building kind of situation” and wondered if there had been a “final straw.”
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Kelly was in the same boat as Lemon when she got fired from NBC in 2019 after making comments about using blackface as a means for a Halloween costume, per CNN. However, her termination wasn’t as abrupt as Lemons and she got to walk away with roughly $30 million left in her contract. Lemon also has remaining years in his contract with CNN and it looks as if he’s lawyering up. The New York Times reported that the news anchor has hired an entertainment lawyer, so Lemon may end up with a large sum of money to ease the sting of his firing.
