Brooke Baldwin says she cried after Megyn Kelly slut-shamed her with false four-men sex claim

Brooke Baldwin says she cried privately after Megyn Kelly “slut-shamed” her by falsely claiming she had slept with four men — and alleges the fallout ultimately cost her “tens of thousands of dollars.”The former CNN anchor, 47, revealed the emotional and financial toll of their summer feud in her latest Substack newsletter, writing that what particularly stung was seeing another woman publicly spread a false account of her sex life.“While I was in it — that horrible weekend this summer and the days after — my tears in private weren’t really about me,” Baldwin wrote.“They were about that.That a woman did this.

Falsely.Publicly.

Slut-shamed me.”Baldwin said the episode continued to reverberate after Kelly’s original comments, claiming the fallout became costly as she sought to defend herself.“Her lie kept multiplying — a lie about choices with my own body that I never even made,” Baldwin wrote.“And it cost me tens of thousands of dollars to defend a version of myself that never existed.”Baldwin did not specify what accounted for the alleged expenses.The bad blood dates to July, when Kelly devoted a segment of “The Megyn Kelly Show” to a remarkably candid Substack entry in which Baldwin discussed dating, sex and four men she had the opportunity to sleep with.Kelly told her audience that Baldwin’s “work and her mission include banging four men in a month.”Baldwin had explicitly written that she rejected all four opportunities.“What did I do?” Baldwin wrote in the July post.“Turned them all down.

Every.Single.

One.”The former cable news anchor nevertheless left little mystery about her attitude toward sex.“And y’all know… I love sex.If I may be so bold, I’m pretty damn good at it,” Baldwin wrote.She also said casual sex was “very much on the table” and that she had “thought about it.

A lot,” but explained that she was deliberately abstaining during that period of her life.Kelly subsequently ackn...