The media personality Megyn Kelly is speaking out this week to reveal why she turned down a “huge offer” from CNN after she left Fox News back in 2017.

“I considered going to CNN,” Kelly said, according to The New York Post. “CNN made me a huge offer. Huge.”

Kelly went on to say that she decided to not sign with CNN because she knew she would not have a sizable audience there.

“I said no, Buck, because I knew: Who is my fanbase going to be over there? I knew who my fans were and I knew that my Fox viewers were not going to follow me to CNN and that the CNN viewers were going to hate my guts,” she explained.

Kelly then claimed that Chris Wallace, who left Fox News for the now-struggling streaming service CNN+, is “suffering from that very problem right now.” She was surprised when he left Fox News because his salary was in the multi-million dollar range per year even though “he was in last place [in the ratings] every week, every year, every month.”

“He was always in last, and they still paid him,” Kelly said, referring to Fox News keeping Wallace for many years.

Sources have said that Wallace is having “daily breakdowns” over the “miserable launch” of CNN+. Perhaps he’s now realized that leaving Fox News was not such a good idea after all.

SOURCE: Chris Wallace is "having daily breakdowns" over the "miserable launch" of @CNNplus. Wants a "CNN show or is threatening to walk" they go on. "He is having staffers count how many times a day his promo is playing"

— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) April 12, 2022

Not stopping there, Kelly blasted CNN bosses for ever believing that a streaming service like CNN+ would ever work.

“Who is the moron at CNN who actually thought, ‘You know what we need with our ratings in the toilet? More of us. We need more CNN,’” she continued.

Conservative commentator Buck Sexton agreed with Kelly, saying, “I do love all of the jokes about how while Elon [Musk] is offering to buy Twitter for tens of billions, there are lots of people out there right now who are willing to buy CNN+ for tens of dollars.”

After leaving Fox News, Kelly initially signed with NBC News, hosting a morning talk show that was quickly cancelled. She has since gone out on her own to host “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, which is where she dropped this revelation about CNN offering her a gig.

CNN has been mired in controversy lately, with Jeff Zucker stepping down as president earlier this year after it was revealed that he did not disclose a years-long consensual relationship with a subordinate. With ratings for CNN also plummeting in the post-Donald Trump era, things are certainly not looking good for the network and its streaming service.