The story of Megyn Kelly’s transformation is, in many ways, the story of what happens when a traditional television career collides with the influencer economy — and loses, then adapts.
Kelly, 55, first gained national prominence as a Fox News anchor who, during the network’s first Republican primary debate in 2015, pressed Donald Trump on his treatment of women — a confrontation that triggered a very public feud and helped precipitate her exit from Fox in 2017. That departure was bound up in something larger: alongside Gretchen Carlson and others, Kelly accused then–Fox News CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, a reckoning later dramatized in the 2019 film Bombshell, in which Charlize Theron portrayed her as a complicated but sympathetic figure of workplace defiance.
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But not long after achieving mainstream respectability, Kelly’s career suffered a sharp blow. Her much-hyped NBC morning show,
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