Megyn Kelly blasts Don Lemon over tantrum at CNN co-host: 'I would have had him fired' - New York Post

“If somebody ever screamed at me to the point where I was visibly upset and ran out of the studio, I would have that person fired,” the former Fox News star said during her SiriusXM podcast on Friday.

As exclusively reported by The Post on Thursday, the 56-year-old Lemon confronted Collins, 30, after the show’s Dec. 8 broadcast and unleashed a tantrum, accusing her of interrupting him while on the air.

The show has struggled to gain traction in the ratings race.CNN/Twitter“Don screamed at Kaitlan, who was visibly upset and ran out of the studio,” a source with knowledge of the situation told The Post.

CNN head honcho Chris Licht got wind of Lemon’s eruption and was said to have been appalled, sources told The Post.

Another source said Licht dispatched a producer of the show to talk to Lemon and suggested that he take a personal day to “cool off.”

Collins’ past stint as a reporter for Tucker Carlson’s news site the Daily Caller has reportedly irked Lemon.Getty Images for CNNA week before the Dec. 8 blowup, Lemon got into an awkward dispute with Collins and Harlow on air, arguing that the US men’s soccer team should get paid more than the women’s team despite the men’s relative lack of success at the World Cup.