Sage Steele Speaks Out For First Time About Her ESPN Exit, Being Stabbed in the Back, and Fighting For What's Right | Ep. 610

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Sage Steele, former ESPN sportscaster, for an exclusive interview about her exit from the network, how she's feeling as her lawsuit is now settled, ESPN career highlights and lowlights, the toxic environment at the sports network, dealing with some of her female colleagues, her experience with Keith Olbermann, her decision to speak out about the vaccines mandate at ESPN, the fallout that came from it, her comments about being biracial and former President Obama, the true context about it related to The View, how her own personal story about her racial background defines who she is, the breaking point at ESPN, choosing to fight back and having the support of her kids, hypocrisy at the network when it comes to speaking out on current events and political issues, her decision to fight back, being stabbed in the back by colleagues, the emotional toll the lawsuit took on her, her decision to speak out on keeping biological men out of women's sports, her parents and growing up as an Army brat, the lessons she learned growing up, and more. More on Steele: https://www.sagesteele.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Today we have an exclusive
0:17.5	interview with now former ESPN host Sage Steele, and I am so excited for this conversation.
0:25.2	Sage is finally able to speak out after settling her lawsuit against ESPN and Disney, who
0:31.0	Sage alleged retaliated against her after she mildly criticized the Disney vaccine mandate
0:38.5	and shared her opinion on what it's like to be biracial in America. ESPN, a company
0:44.3	that allows its anchors all the time to engage in political speech, supportive of leftist
0:51.3	causes, decided to single out this one host, condemning her comments, forcing her to apologize,
0:59.2	and then punishing her anyway by taking away her on air assignments. Well, she wasn't
1:05.0	going to take it sitting down. She sued. The case was settled this week, and Sage Steele,
1:11.6	now a free agent joins me today. Sage, thank you so much for being here. How are you?
1:18.6	Hi, Megan. I am so honored to be here with you, of all people, so thank you for having
1:24.1	me. How am I? That's a great question. It depends on the day, the minute, the second.
1:29.2	I've kind of been all over the place, but I know I'm going to be good. I just know I'm
1:34.3	going to be okay. Yes, and I think it takes a while. After a separation from a company
1:38.7	like that, you've been with forever. It takes a while for it to settle in and you to
1:42.0	realize, I'm good. I'm okay. I'm going to be even better. Yes, and that's the other
1:47.5	reason why I have so admired you, because you've been there. You've been through it all,
1:52.4	good, bad, ugly, ups and downs, and this is the first time I've ever been separated
1:58.5	from a company, and in this way, obviously, and I was always such a goody-two shoes,
2:04.2	and let's not ruffle any feathers, and apparently that's changed. But I really, I don't know.
2:10.2	I just feel overwhelmed with every single emotion, and what I'm trying to do is be okay with
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