Former Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean tried to stay mum on ex pal Megyn Kelly’s on-air slams, but when she attacked the MS community, she could no longer stay quiet, she tells Page Six.
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“I’m sick of her using her platform to put people down…
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She goes to the lowest denominator and constantly put women down,” Dean, who has battled multiple sclerosis for 23 years, told Page Six.
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“She’s crying now because I guess she no longer gets to be the face of this disease, and as she says, she’s back to ‘square one.’
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She’s made like a cottage industry of talking about her MS,” Kelly said of Applegate on her SiriusXM show.
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Kelly’s commentary caused Dean to take to X and blast her as a “mean girl.”
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“She used to be one of my closest friends…
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Her comments about [Applegate] are disgusting,” she wrote.
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We have no cure.
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It saps you of everything when you’re not feeling well.
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It took my job away from me,” Dean tearfully said.
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Dean added she’s grateful for celebs like Applegate, who speak out about their battle with the disease and other illnesses.
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“I want to say more in defense of the people, who put their reputations on the line, and their body of work to say, ‘I’m vulnerable and I’m sick’…
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It’s the loneliest place you can be – to hear [Applegate] cry and have Megyn Kelly use that against her is disgusting,” she said.
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Kelly hasn’t responded to Dean or commented on the backlash she’s received from speaking out about Applegate and her misdiagnosis.
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Her former Fox News pal, Eric Bolling, however slammed Dean’s post on X as “f–king disgraceful.”
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“Janice, I worked with both of you at Fox.
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I saw firsthand how Megyn backed you and helped elevate your career.
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Watching you publicly trash her and now slap ‘#meangirl’ on it is f–king disgraceful…
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You should be ashamed of this,” Bolling wrote.
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“Why was he fired from Fox?” Dean asked rhetorically.
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“I’ve heard stories about this guy for many years.
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Bolling being the guy to come to her rescue is not the superhero you want,” she told us.
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(Bolling parted ways with Fox News in 2017 following a probe into whether he sent inappropriate text messages to colleagues, which he denied).
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Meanwhile, she has a theory about why Kelly spews vitriol in her independent hosting era.
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“She doesn’t have any close friends.
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She’s secluded herself to live in Connecticut, and doesn’t get out into the world.
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It’s very isolating and she doesn’t have someone pulling her in to check her,” Dean said.
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Dean, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent weeks, said she’ll comment more when she’s well enough.
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“I don’t want to go down the road she’s gone down.
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I don’t want to fight in the gutter, but I do want to raise awareness,” she said.
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Kelly did not comment.
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