Fox News host Jesse Watters is facing backlash after a video clip resurfaced showing his controversial approach to courting his now-wife.

The footage, originally aired on Fox in 2022, features the 47-year-old Watters confessing to deflating the tires of a 25-year-old intern, whom he eventually married, so he could offer her a ride home.

At the time of the incident, Watters was 39 and married to another woman he had also met through work.

In the clip, he told his co-hosts the woman in question was Emma DiGiovina, who he went on to marry in December 2019.

With a grin, he recounted, “When I was trying to get Emma to date me, the first thing I did was let the air out of her tires.”

“She couldn’t go anywhere and needed a lift,” he continued. “I asked, ‘Hey, do you need a lift?’ She got right into the car.”

After his co-hosts expressed their shock over the story, Watters claimed that his now-wife was unaware of his devious plan to this day.

Watters then appeared to justify his actions by stating that the pair are now married.

Fox News host Jesse Watters (seen this month) has come under fire after a clip resurfaced of him discussing how the controversial way he first made a move on his now-wife 

In the video, Watters, now 47, admitted to deflating the car tires of a 25-year-old intern – whom he later married – so he could offer her a ride home. He and his wife are seen in 2023

‘It has a happy ending,’ Watters insisted.

Another of his colleagues asked if he had taken the air out of other women’s cars in order to get them into his own, which the Fox host implied that he may well have done.

‘Is that the first time you did it, or did you use that before?’ Jeannine Pirro inquired.

‘It works like a charm!’ he bragged.

The clip was picked up by online news show The Young Turks at the time, and was slammed by the hosts, who branded his dating trick as ‘predatory.’

‘Not only [was Watters story] insanely creepy and predatory, but Watters also played it off like it was a perfectly normal thing to do,’ the outraged hosts wrote in the video’s description. 

Political commentator Cenk Uygur said Watters’ actions made the Fox host seem like a ‘stalker.’

‘While she reported into you, you vandalized her car so she couldn’t get home,’ he said incredulously. ‘She would be trapped and need your assistance, so you could have a captive audience.’

Watters made the bizarre on-air admission in 2022 during a segment on The Five on Fox 

After his co-hosts expressed their shock over the story, Watters claimed that his wife (seen) was unaware of his devious plan to this day

It was 2018 when Watters was divorcing his first wife Noelle Watters, pictured, who is mother to his twin daughters

‘There are plenty of daughters who deal with predatory behavior from their bosses, that’s what Me Too started off as being about,’ host Ana Kasparian pointed out. ‘And I don’t know that the culture has really changed all that much.’

Watters also met his first wife, Noelle Inguagiato, while working at Fox News. They welcomed twin daughters Sophie and Ellie in 2011.

The couple finalized their divorce in March 2019, with Watters wasting no time and tying the knot to DiGiovina later that year.

They went on to welcome two children: a son Jesse Jr. who was born in 2021 and a daughter Georgina born in 2023.