Disorder, anger and farewells: negotiations between Megyn Kelly and NBC News become difficult

The battle between Megyn Kelly and NBC leaders was made public Wednesday as Kelly's lawyer accused the network of revealing false information. NBC denied the allegation and fought back, saying Kelly's team had not responded.

The day began with the Daily Mail report on the stormy negotiations over Kelly's multi-million dollar deal. "It's total war," shouted the title.

Kelly "is looking for $ 69 million, as well as a $ 10 million bonus in her starter package because NBC has" destroyed her career "and threatens to reveal her leadership," the report says.

People close to both sides of the bargain denied that Kelly asked for money over the value of his contract – but that was pretty much the only thing that both parties could get on with. # 39; to hear.

Kelly joined NBC in January 2017 on a $ 69 million, three-year contract. His show, airing at 9am from the "Today" program, was abruptly canceled after claiming that Blackface was not an inappropriate Halloween costume.

On Twitter, Kelly called the cover of the Mail and was particularly interested in the decision of the newspaper to publish photographs of her children. She wrote that Mail's photographer "followed us to my daughter's school and secretly filmed my 7-year-old child (her classmates as well) and posted her." IT'S NOT OK. "

Kelly's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, has negotiated the terms of his separation from NBC for a week. In a joint statement announcing the departure of Kelly from NBC News, discussions have gone wrong around the language, according to two people close to the debates.

Their disagreement is about the importance of Kelly's comments to the dark side. People close to her say that Kelly's comments, for which she apologized on the air, mainly serve as an excuse for the company and NBC News President Andy Lack to get rid of Kelly, whose broadcast had failed.

Kelly's friends argued that her aggressive coverage of allegations of sexual harassment against NBC News TV personalities had kept her away from her colleagues and management.

Kelly and Lack have had several conversations in recent months about the future of the series, its disappointing odds and how to fix them.

Both sides do not differ on the money owed to him, said these people.

Freedman issued a statement blaming Kelly's media coverage at NBC's feet. Kelly told friends for months that she suspected NBC employees of having leaked negative stories about her.

"Despite my efforts to handle this process confidentially, NBC News allows the media to broadcast completely false and irresponsible information that denigrates Megyn by mistakenly claiming that she's ever asked for more money than her." contract does require it, "according to Freedman's release. to the Daily Mail story. "If NBC News is not the source, then the information division is responsible for correcting these misrepresentations. Or are they trying in one way or another to use these fabrications to gain a fictitious advantage in the discussions we have? If Andy Lack has lost control, I hope that Steve Burke will be able to intervene without preventing the blatant lies on our discussions from not being corrected. "

Burke is CEO of NBCUniversal.

A spokesman for NBC News responded: "Unlike Freedman, who has commented on the media many times throughout the negotiations, we respect the confidentiality of the process and will not comment until it is concluded."