Melissa Francis, a former host of Fox News, has discussed her exit from the network in the wake of Tucker Carlson and Fox News “parting ways.”
Francis started off an interview with Megyn Kelly on Sirius XM by recalling an alleged instance where Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott “shrugged it off” after receiving an email from her network supervisor referring to Francis by a “misogynistic sexist name”.
One of my managers at Fox News once sent me an email in which she called me a sexist and misogynistic name and discussed—deprecated my actions. I was unintentionally included in it when he sent it to all the managers; to be honest, we’ve all done that. “When you’re spreading rumors about someone and you include them in it as well,” Francis remarked.
That’s what he did. Since [Fox News CEO] Suzanne Scott was copied on the email, I went straight to her office as soon as I got it. I then exclaimed, “What the f***?” I mean, like — and she dismissed it. And the man who denigrated me in that sexist and misogynistic email is still employed there. “Many of the things you read in the Dominion case were actually written by him,” she continued. And he’s still there, according to my check yesterday. According to this notion, they are on the side of women and something in a text would be so terrible that they wouldn’t. That is a bald-faced lie, and they don’t want Fox women to be exposed to an atmosphere where someone like Tucker says such things.
Francis claimed that a teleprompter was used to axe her.
Following her gender-based pay disparity claim against Fox News, the former host received $15 million in 2022. According to Francis’ team, she was fired from Fox News because she filed a lawsuit against the network.
