Bill O’Reilly Ends Interview After Being Asked About Sexual Harassment Settlement

In a phase set to air Friday, former Fox Information host Invoice O’Reilly reduce brief an interview with PBS host Margaret Hoover after he was requested a few sexual harassment settlement that price him his job.

O’Reilly sat for the interview with “Firing Line” final week to debate his new ebook, “Confronting the Presidents.” However O’Reilly couldn’t deal with being confronted himself after Hoover requested him in regards to the $32 million sexual harassment settlement he paid in 2017.

The settlement was paid to former Fox Information authorized analyst Lis Wiehl, who accused O’Reilly of “repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of homosexual pornography and different sexually specific materials to her,” based on The New York Occasions.

Hoover, who used to work for Fox Information, learn components of a 2017 New York Occasions opinion piece that she wrote criticizing O’Reilly.

“Mr. O’Reilly blamed others, embracing the victimization he so ridiculed of the American left,” Hoover wrote on the time. “He claimed his departure was no fault of his personal, however the price of doing enterprise as a excessive profile media persona. That is an outlandish declare. William F. Buckley, Tom Brokaw and Anderson Cooper are high-profile media personalities, and but, they’ve by no means been dogged with repeated sexual harassment entanglements.”

O’Reilly instructed Hoover he’d “be a idiot to dredge that up,” and went on the defensive.

“You don’t know something about it, so you possibly can write no matter you need,” O’Reilly mentioned.

“I do know in regards to the tradition that I skilled there,” Hoover replied. “That’s what I might write about, and that’s what I did have the power to put in writing about.”

“You had been on my program for 4 years, you had no downside, and that’s what you understand about me,” O’Reilly mentioned. “You don’t know the rest about me, so that you write no matter you need.”

Hoover pressed O’Reilly on questions relating to the settlement.

“I knew you had been gonna do that, all proper? And I’m not afraid,” O’Reilly mentioned, earlier than ending the interview.

In an interview with Mediaite, Hoover mentioned it was “disappointing” that O’Reilly wouldn’t reply her questions.

“It’s disappointing that Invoice O’Reilly, figuring out he could be requested, has not mirrored on how the settlements involving him and a number of other girls have affected their potential to earn a residing in media once more, whilst he continues to, in his phrases, ‘flourish’ in impartial media,” Hoover instructed the publication.

Earlier than leaving the set, O’Reilly warned that his “lawyer goes to be watching,” based on Mediaite.

The complete episode of “Firing Line” airs Friday night time.