What did Megyn Kelly say?! All the times she stirred up controversy

Here are some other gaffes of note. 

Her interview that didn’t, well, workout with Jane Fonda

In September 2017, Kelly interviewed the veteran actress, on hand to promote her Netflix film “Our Souls at Night.” The talk turned cringe-worthy when the host asked Fonda, 80, about plastic surgery. 

“We really want to talk about that now?” Fonda responded during the “Today” show chat, giving Kelly an incredulous look.

Kelly later expressed regret over the interview to Us Weekly, published earlier this month. 

“I certainly wish I hadn’t put on Jane Fonda,” she said reflecting on her program. “That didn’t go well!”

Kelly insisted to the celeb-focused outlet she wouldn’t have taken back the question, however.

“She answered that question in about 40 different forums,” she said. “It was nothing wrong with me. And she’s answered it in 40 more forums since!”

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The “Will & Grace” segment that Debra Messing regretted

The same month as her Fonda faux pas, Kelly hosted “Will & Grace” cast members ahead of the revival’s premiere. During her debut show, Kelly cheerily told a “Will & Grace” fan “the gay thing is going to work out great” for him. 

In response to being questioned about her appearance on “Megyn Kelly Today,” via Instagram, Messing replied that she’d wished she had not been a part of the show.

“Regret going on,” she wrote. “Dismayed by her comments.”

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The body-shaming controversy

Earlier this year Kelly hosted fitness enthusiast Maria Kang and encouraged her to “parlay (fitness shaming) into a professional business.”

“Some of us want to be shamed,” Kelly reasoned. “When I was in law school, and I was gaining weight, I said to my stepfather, ‘If you see me go into that kitchen one more time, you say, ‘Where are you going, fat…?’

“And it works!” Kelly told her audience, smiling and giving a thumbs up. 

Kelly addressed her remarks the following day on her show.

“I said something yesterday on this show that clearly struck a nerve, and I think it’s a conversation that we need to have openly,” she said. “We were discussing body shaming others, something I absolutely do not support. In fact, quite the opposite.”

“I still cringe when I hear a person attacked for his or her weight,” she added. “Please know I would never encourage that toward any person. I’ve been thinking a lot about why I once encouraged it toward myself.”