NBC's Megyn Kelly compared allegations against former network anchor Tom Brokaw to her experience at Fox News during the 9 a.m. hour of the "Today" show Monday, during a discussion with NBC News correspondents Stephanie Gosk and Kate Snow, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Kelly, a former Fox News host, alleged that she was sexually harassed by the late network chief executive Roger Ailes at the height of Gretchen Carlson's harassment lawsuit against the Fox boss, per People magazine.
Ailes, who died last year, was eventually forced to resign in 2016 after an internal investigation at Fox, according to Variety.
Brokaw, who anchored the NBC's "Nightly News" from 1982 to 2004, was accused by former NBC correspondent Linda Vester last month in The Washington Post of unwanted advances on two occasions in the 1990s.
"I just came from Fox, where we just went through this," Kelly, who joined NBC late last year, said on "Today," per The Hollywood Reporter. "And they hired Paul Weiss, an outside law firm, but Paul Weiss was employed as counsel for the companies, so it was all covered with attorney-client privilege. It wasn't through outside, independent investigation where the results will be announced to the world. The world would find out what happened. It was all controlled, the information being controlled, by Fox."
Kelly went on to talk about her past experience in more detail on the show.
"When I was at Fox News...Gretchen Carlson filed her lawsuit against Roger [Ailes], and then I called Lachlan Murdoch to tell him what had happened to me 10 years earlier, because I wanted to make sure that it wasn't just an internal investigation, that it was a full and fair investigation into his conduct, and they hired Paul Weiss," Kelly said, per The Hollywood Reporter.
"When I came out and talked about it publicly, the news anchors would ask me, 'Why didn't you report it?' I finally found the right response, which was, 'You don't get to ask me that question until you ask me first whether there was a safe avenue for reporting in my company, and only if the answer to that is yes, you get to ask question number two.'"
When Snow pointed out how forcefully Brokaw came out against Vester's allegations, Kelly noted the significance of the move, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Not in every case does the man come out and forcibly deny it," Kelly said of other allegations against high-profile figures, The Hollywood Reporter wrote. "In fact, we've seen in some of the cases the men have said, 'I screwed up. I'm not a perfect person. I made mistakes.'"
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