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Radio host and podcaster Megyn Kelly tried to take a victory lap after the announcement last week that Stephen Colbert’s Late Show would be canceled by CBS after 10 years on the air and despite it being the highest-rated show in its time slot.
But given her own history, it didn’t go well.
Kelly said on her show Friday that Colbert took The Late Show ― which was started by David Letterman ― and “completely drove it into the ground.”
“He desperately wanted to be Keith Olbermann,” she said. “And guess what? Keith Olbermann is a failure, and now so are you, Stephen Colbert.”
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Kelly was a longtime host at Fox News, where she drew the ire of then-candidate Donald Trump during a Republican debate in 2015.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes,” Trump infamously complained at the time. “Blood was coming out of her — wherever.”
She later left Fox and signed a three-year $69 million deal with NBC, which included a Sunday night news magazine show and a third hour of the Today show called Megyn Kelly Today.
But she struggled in the ratings, and was taken off the air after she defended the use of blackface as part of Halloween costumes.
She apologized, but the show was canceled days later after a little more than a year on the air. NBC reportedly paid out her full contract.
After she left, the third hour of the Today show jumped in the ratings by 18%, NBC News reported at the time.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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