Here’s What Megyn Kelly Says ‘Bombshell’ Got Wrong

The movie about the Fox News drama, Bombshell, places Megyn Kelly (played by Charlize Theron) at the center of the firestorm.

Now, the journalist is speaking out about her portrayal in the film, as well as what she feels the film got wrong.

In a round table interview, Megyn brought together former Fox colleagues Juliet Huddy (former host of Fox’s The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet), Rudi Bakhtiar (former Fox News reporter) and Julie Zann (former associate producer of Fox News Live).

All the women were able to tell their own stories in their own words.

“So a couple of things about the movie I wanted to point out that were not true,” Megyn started. “They suggest that I had run my debate question for Trump by the Murdochs. That’s a fantasy. I never ran it by [Roger] Ailes or the Murdochs or anyone other than my debate team, so that was not true.”

Of course, Megyn is speaking about the first Republican presidential debate in 2015 when she asked then-candidate Donald Trump: “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals … Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on the Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president? And how do you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton – that you are part of the war on women?”

Megyn later explained:

“The Murdochs and I never spoke prior to my calling Lachlan Murdoch [Fox Network’s CEO],” she said in the interview. “Lachlan in my experience was a stand-up guy, and immediately did the right thing when I called him — immediately. And his words to me after I told him what happened to me were, ‘I’m sorry.’”

She added, “The notion that Roger liked the Donald Trump woman question because it created controversy and a TV moment was not true. Roger did not like that question — at all — and was very angry at me for asking it, and at one point, actually said to me, ‘No more female empowerment stuff.’”

“There certainly were no protests of me at the GOP convention,” Megyn continued. “There were other people protesting. That was all BS.”

Megyn and Juliet also confirm that a scene in which the two meet was fictional.

“Our scene never happened,” Megyn said to Juliet, to which Juliet replied: “Yeah it never happened. Although it was lovely. But yeah, it never happened.”

Regarding how the film depicted former Fox News CEO Ailes, Zann said the environment he fostered was “worse than that.” “So that was my immediate take-away,” she shared. So this is it. You really let off Roger easily.”

Damn! Well… at least she’s setting the record straight. Watch the full roundtable below: