NBC talk show host Megyn Kelly offered a warning to her female TV industry colleagues for defending Tom Brokaw against claims of sexual harassment, noting her similar experience when she worked at Fox News.
"You don’t know what you don’t know," Kelly cautioned Monday on her NBC show, "Megyn Kelly Today."
The host said that when she worked at Fox News, supporters of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes defended him against similar claims from Kelly and others. Ailes later resigned from the network.
"I came from Fox, and we just went through this. … We saw it at Fox News; these women came out. And I remember sitting there thinking, 'You’re wrong, it happened to me, your statements are wrong, and you’re going to be proven wrong,'" Kelly said.
The host was referring to 65 women in the TV industry who circulated a letter of support for Brokaw, saying that Brokaw has always treated them respectfully.
Kelly also defended Brokaw.
"That’s not in any way to impugn Tom, who I love. And who’s been so good to me. Just saying, you don’t know what you don’t know… I love Tom, but I think letters like that can be dicey. That’s all I’m going to say," Kelly said.
Brokaw on Saturday denied claims from former NBC News correspondent Linda Vester, who accused the veteran NBC News anchor of proposing an affair and attempting to kiss her on two occasions in the 1990s.
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