In Touch (USA)

MEGYN IS TV’S MOST HATED STAR

• Makes her co-workers cry • Insane temper tantrums

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Though Megyn Kelly claims to be a champion for women in the workplace, a former colleague is slamming her for not practicing what she preaches. Iren Halperin, a makeup artist who worked with the Megyn Kelly Today star at Fox News, says Megyn is “rude” and “condescend­ing,” among other things. “I wasn’t the first person she treated this way, and there were other people after me,” Iren tells In Touch of the host. “She’s disrespect­ful, and she gets away with it.” (Staffers who work with Megyn at NBC are routinely reduced to tears by the tense atmosphere, according to a recent report.)

Iren says Megyn once demanded that a reporter who was in the middle of having her makeup done get out of the chair so her own makeup could be started. Iren says she asked Megyn — who was early — to wait, but “she threw the reporter out.” Megyn, 47, also criticized her work. “She looked and said, ‘You know, your eyeliner is a millimeter off,’” says Iren. “I knew she was lying, so I took a clean brush, ran it across her eye and said, ‘How is it now?’ and she said, ‘Perfect.’ She wanted to assert her power by putting me down.” When Megyn’s regular makeup artist quit, Iren was asked to take over. “I knew what I was getting myself into,” she says. “But I figured, I’ll do my job.”

A former longtime Fox employee and source close to Megyn says Iren’s account “is complete fiction. Megyn has been a great mentor and friend to countless women inside and outside the network.” But Iren, who left Fox News in 2016, stands by her story: “I have nothing to gain and nothing to lose from speaking the truth — nobody should take their power and abuse it.”

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“If you do something that upsets her, she’ll turn around and try to get you,” says Megyn’s former makeup artist.

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