Megyn Kelly mocked Chris Cuomo for his “hilarious new ‘self-help’ videos,” claiming that “literally no one is listening to that” after the former CNN host devoted a podcast episode to performing a “personal inventory.”
“He’s gonna go like the Gwyneth Paltrow route? Like we’re gonna get vagina candles from him next?” Kelly joked during Tuesday’s episode of her SiriusXM program “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
Kelly also skewered Cuomo for tweeting a claim that he “just stopped at a light in” Manhattan where “the guy next to me was listening to” his podcast, “The Chris Cuomo Project.”
“There is zero chance this happened,” Kelly said, noting that “The Chris Cuomo Project” boasts just 86,000 subscribers on YouTube.
“It’s just he’s the same he’s ever been — full of hubris and dishonesty and his false self-deprecating, ‘Funny, it’s funny how people love me,’” Kelly said of Cuomo.
A source close to the situation hit back at Kelly’s comments on Wednesday.
“Megyn Kelly will likely never have again a primetime spot on television and is now relegated to being another angry mouth on the internet,” the source said.
On her podcast, Kelly played a clip of Cuomo during one of his “Walk and Talk” features.
In the clip, Cuomo is seen walking in nature while offering tips on personal development.
“Have you ever done personal inventory?” Cuomo said in the clip.
The cable news host urged his viewers to take stock of “what you like and what you don’t like, where you’re at, where you wanna be” while evaluating “work” and “relationships.”
Cuomo then said that “my job is the easiest part of my life.”
“I know what to do, I know how to do the job,” Cuomo said, adding that he’s been the beneficiary of “so many years, so many reps.”
Kelly ridiculed Cuomo’s podcast, which “is never in the top 200 of news podcasts.”
“I mean, it doesn’t even touch the top 200,” Kelly said.
“By the way, our show is consistently in the top five, and the ones who preceded us are the behemoths like the New York Times’ ‘The Daily,’ that’s got like 10 million today … Our show is actually doing well,” Kelly said.
“But to suggest that just randos in New York City that you [Chris] just [happened] to pull up next to are listening?”
Cuomo, the longtime host of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” was fired by the network in December 2021 after it was learned that he offered advice to his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on how to weather a sexual harassment scandal.
After a months-long hiatus, Cuomo resurfaced on NewsNation, the Nexstar-owned cable news channel which boasts a stable of veteran broadcasting hosts and pundits such as Ashley Banfield, Elizabeth Vargas and Dan Abrams.
NewsNation, which bills itself as a nonpartisan alternative to the opinionated programming of rivals such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, has had trouble gaining traction in the ratings race.
In February, Cuomo told Anthony Scaramucci that the ratings for his show were “kind of embarrassing.”
Cuomo told “the Mooch” that he was so distraught after being “s–t-canned” by CNN that he was “going to kill everybody and myself.”
“I had to accept [my firing] because I was going to kill everybody, including myself,” the 52-year-old news personality told the Mooch’s podcast, “Open Book.”
“Things can consume you.”
[Written in collaboration with other media outlets with information from the following sources]
