Megyn Kelly’s legal team wants investigative journalist Ronan Farrow in the room for their meeting with NBC execs after offensive comments Kelly made on…
Megyn Kelly’s legal team wants investigative journalist Ronan Farrow in the room for their meeting with NBC execs after offensive comments Kelly made on her show led to reports she would be fired.
TV host Megyn Kelly found herself facing major backlash after she made comments on her show that seemed to indicate she saw no problem with a white person wearing blackface if it’s a Halloween costume, as reported by the Inquisitr .
The last straw seemed to be when Kelly indicated she didn’t see an issue with blackface as long as the person was dressing up like a character.
“What is racist?” Kelly said on Tuesday. “You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person that puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was okay, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.”
Despite apologizing on the show the next day, the backlash against Kelly’s comments was immediate. Al Roker, the show’s former host, said that she owed “a bigger apology to folks of color around the country.”
Kelly issued a second apology on Wednesday on-air.
“I want to begin with two words: ‘I’m sorry,’” she said at the start of her show. “Yesterday we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes, and that conversation turned to whether it is ever okay for a person of one race to dress up as another — a black person making their race lighter or a white person making theirs darker, to make a costume complete.”
“I defended the idea, saying as long as it was respectful, and part of a Halloween costume, it seemed okay,” she continued. “Well, I was wrong and I am sorry.”
Now, with Kelly reportedly going to be dropped by the network, her legal team wants investigative journalist Ronan Farrow in the room when her lawyers meet with NBC executives over her reported firing according to Page Six .
Kelly called for an independent outside firm to look into the allegations that the network tried to hide the story in September.
“There’s the question of the faith and confidence of the public in the reporting of NBC on matters involving itself,” Kelly said. “For me, as a lawyer, it’s always better if you just send it outside. And then people can have more faith in it.”
