Megyn Kelly Slams Scott Pelley After He Compares ‘60 Minutes’ Firing to ‘Your Spouse Being Murdered’

Megyn Kelly had plenty to say about Scott Pelley, who became emotional during his first interview since being fired from 60 Minutes.

On Sunday, June 7, Pelley sat down with The New York Times following his exit from CBS News and fought back tears as he described to journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro how he is handling this career transition after working nearly four decades with the company.

“It’s like your spouse being murdered,” he told Garcia-Navarro in the interview, which she shared on X. “I don’t care about me. It’s not about me.”

“I am not emotional about this because I have lost this job … but the people I leave behind, treated in this way?” Pelley — who was axed from his longtime gig following a testy exchange with 60 Minutes producer Nick Bilton and after slamming CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss — continued. “That breaks my heart, and it’s going to take me a long time to get over it.”

However, Kelly was having none of it: The journalist lashed out at Pelley, 68, on the Monday, June 8 episode of the Megyn Kelly Show, calling the murder comparison a step too far.

“I ask you, just sit for one second — what could happen to you in your professional life that you’d compare to the murder of your spouse? This is not the right analogy,” she said. “This is not where we should have gone, Scott.”

“The way he is behaving is like a child, like a petulant child,” she continued on the podcast. “It’s fine if you ‘feel like’ you’re family in your workplace or you ‘feel like’ you have this bond of loyalty that transforms anything and tramples any commercial concerns, or trumps, but it doesn’t, you need to retain the knowledge that it doesn’t actually.”

“Actually it’s a place of business and business decisions are going to be made accordingly,” she added. “The entire interview shows somebody who doesn’t seem to understand that and this.”

In response to President Donald Trump calling him one of the “stupid, crooked people that don’t care about your country,” Pelley also fired back in the Times interview.

“I’ve never worn the uniform. But I’ve been in combat for this country, in Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. I’ve been shot at, spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert,” he explained. “I’m not aware that the president of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country.”

Kelly took particular exception to that remark, too. “How dare you besmirch him. Because he never actually had a military uniform on, while aggrandizing yourself for going over to cover wars as a journalist, it’s unbelievable,” she said. “This is the same thing we’re seeing with some leftists now, who are ripping on JD Vance because he was in the Marines, but he was a correspondent, like he was updating troops and others on what was happening in the war, as opposed to the front lines firing a gun.”

“Who cares? Did you go? Most people didn’t go to Iraq. Most people didn’t go to Afghanistan,” Kelly added. “Stop. Just stop.”