Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly has revealed why she ‘fell in love’ with President Donald Trump despite his previous crude remarks about her. The host of The Megyn Kelly Show made the shocking confession on The Stephen A. Smith Show this week after she was pressed about supporting someone who had publicly berated her.

‘We all know how he treated you back in 2015 when you were at Fox with the Republican primary debate and what have you,’ Smith began. ‘He felt that your question was nasty because you brought up quotes that he had said about women in the past, calling them pigs amongst other things. And all of a sudden he goes on the air and said that you were bleeding out of your eyes or wherever it was or whatever.’

Smith then asked Kelly directly: ‘There are people that still look at you to this very day and say, how could you support somebody that would talk about you that way?’ Kelly responded that her change of heart was gradual process – and was not ‘sudden’ at all. The podcast host explained that despite his remarks in 2015, she was able to ‘check my personal feelings about the guy and start getting back to what needs to be my focus as a journalist, which is the professional relationship.’

‘When he was attacking me for that nine-month period, I really was not his fan,’ she said. ‘And I wasn’t, you know, really gearing up to vote for Trump because he was staying on me like a dog with a bone. It was highly unpleasant,’ Kelly added. ‘But over time, I was able, and I’m actually proud of it, I was able to check my personal feelings about the guy and start getting back to what needs to be my focus as a journalist, which is the professional relationship with the guy.’

The former Fox News anchor revealed it was Trump’s governing style and policy positions that ultimately won her over, along with what she described as the ‘disastrous’ four years under former President Joe Biden. ‘Professionally, I fell in love with Trump, the president, because I believed him that he would close the border,’ Kelly explained. ‘I believed that he would fight back against the gender madness, which has become a very big issue for me, for many of us. You know I believed that he was gonna try to get DEI out of our colleges and our woke schools.’

Kelly also expressed no regrets about her transformation into a Trump supporter, declaring she’s now ‘100 percent rooting’ for the president and is ‘thrilled’ she ‘saw the light on him.’ Trump and Kelly’s clash began when Kelly questioned Trump during an August 2015 Republican debate about his history of insulting women. The heated exchange led to Trump’s notorious comment to Don Lemon, who was then then with CNN, that Kelly had ‘blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her… wherever.’

Her comments to Smith come just days after Kelly made headlines for her scathing attack on Pope Francis just hours after the Catholic Church announced his death. The 88-year-old pontiff died of a cerebral stroke and subsequent heart failure early Monday morning, and by the afternoon, Kelly released the new episode of her podcast – in which she accused Francis of moving the Catholic Church ‘in a leftward direction’ on immigration issues. She also blamed the late Pope for helping bring ‘illegal’ immigrants into the United States and leaving Americans to ‘deal’ with them. ‘The Church has been participating in getting immigrants here and then finding them housing and helping them stay here, irrespective of the fact that they’re here illegally,’ said Kelly, a lifelong Catholic. ‘And Pope Francis didn’t have to deal with that. ‘It’s caused a lot of us in the Catholic Church to wonder what exactly we’re donating toward on Sunday, it really does.’

She then claimed that conservative Catholics like herself have been caught in a ‘tug-of-war… between the Pope’s messaging and what he wanted us to believe were deep Catholic teachings and what we understand as Americans who have been watching our citizens murdered in the streets by these people to be true.’ According to the former Fox News host, it is one thing for the Catholic Church to want to support its priests and ensure there are ‘flowers on the altar for Easter mass,’ but ‘funding illegals coming into the country? They’re not all upstanding Catholics.’

Before that, Kelly unleashed a scathing remark on the Obamas’ marriage after Michelle Obama discussed their relationship amid divorce rumors surrounding her and Barack. The former Fox News and NBC anchor reacted to a clip of Michelle’s latest ‘IMO’ podcast and declared that ‘I think she and he married the wrong people’ on the latest episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. On last week’s episode of the former first lady’s podcast, Michelle Obama said: ‘I tell people – and folks think this is harsh – it’s, like ‘You’re gonna have a bad decade.’

‘I mean, I’ve been married to my husband for 30-plus years… If the odds were you’re going to be married to your partner for 50 years and 10 of those years could be bad, you’d sign up for it. You know, and that’s really hot it works out.’ But an unimpressed Kelly said on her show: ‘Is it Michelle? It’s not.’ After her divorce from Dan Kendall in 2006, Kelly boasted about her current husband Douglas Brunt and said that she has been ‘married for 17 and a half years and not one was bad.’

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