Megyn Kelly at NBC News after a blackface comment

American journalist Megyn Kelly (47) does not return to her NBC News employer after controversial comments on blackface . A spokesman for the network said this in writing to the Reuters news agency on Friday. That she was fired or left on her own was not announced.

Kelly was attacked this week. During a roundtable organized as part of her own morning show at NBC News, she immediately questioned what was wrong with the whites who painted themselves in black during Halloween, known in the United States as blackface . It was never a problem when she was a child, she added. "As long as you've been dressed as a character."

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Kelly apologized in an email sent Tuesday to her colleagues at NBC News: "I realize now that my behavior was bad and that the story of the blackface in our culture was disgusting, is. "In vain. Earlier Friday, it was clear that the program Megyn Kelly Today would no longer be broadcast at NBC News. In the meantime, this also applies to Kelly himself.

The presenter was strongly criticized, via social media but also by his colleagues. "Megyn is 47," CNN's Don Lemon said this week. "There is no reason in his life that blackface is acceptable." I come from the same generation as Megyn and I do not remember that blackface has always been acceptable anywhere, "Alex added. CBS News' Wagner

Kelly worked a little over a year for NBC News and in January 2017, she came from the Fox News Channel.