Ronan Farrow ‘knows nothing’ about meeting with Megyn Kelly’s lawyer

Megyn Kelly‘s lawyers want Ronan Farrow in the room when her legal team meets with top NBC execs. But sources told us that’s news to Farrow himself.

A source familiar with the situation told Page Six on Thursday evening: “Ronan knows nothing about this.”

Farrow has not commented on the matter.

Page Six exclusively reported that sources said Kelly’s top litigator Bryan Freedman requested that Farrow attend the powwow, “so he can be a witness,” a source said.

NBC declined comment.

But an insider at the network told us: “Megyn’s pattern of racial insensitivity has bitten her badly here and this transparent attempt to distract from the pain she has caused with her comments is really unseemly.”

Farrow’s had his own beef with the network.

After NBC’s reluctance to run Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein exposé (which ultimately ran in the New Yorker), he and NBC News Chairman Andy Lack engaged in a public dispute. During their spat, Farrow claimed he took his story to the New Yorker because NBC tried to block the story from going to air and print.

Then in September on “Megyn Kelly Today,” Kelly asked that NBC hire an outside firm to determine how it handled Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein.

Kelly said: “There’s the question of the faith and confidence of the public in the reporting of NBC on matters involving itself. For me, as a lawyer, it’s always better if you just send it outside. And then people can have more faith in it.”

Sources have told Page Six that Kelly will be out at NBC after her controversial comments this week on-the-air.

During a panel discussion on “Megyn Kelly Today” on Tuesday, she said, “You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was OK just as long as you were dressing as a character.”

She apologized on her show on Wednesday.


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