Elisabeth Hasselbeck got choked up on Tuesday morning’s “Fox & Friends” while addressing her departure from the network she joined in 2013.
“Outside of today and my last day, I will declare the time in between a no-cry zone, but I will permit emotion to run where it is permitted to run on this day now,” the Fox News anchor said while fighting back tears. “This is a hard decision, many women in business and work make these decisions in cycle of their parenting and work lives. It’s a hard decision because I’ve had the blessing and privilege of working for the best boss in the business, the most powerful man in the business, Mr. Roger Ailes.”
When she was done praising “the best man” she has ever worked for, she more thoroughly explain how her children played the biggest role in her decision to leave the network that lured her away from ABC’s “The View.”
“I’m in a season where the kids need the best of me not the rest of me,” Hasselbeck said. “It’s not heroic by any means. I’m going to spend this time with the kids in the morning, start their day off right. Mornings here are certainly better with friends. Mornings at home, right now at this point in our lives, are certainly better with mommy.”
Hasselbeck announced her departure on Monday. Rotating co-hosts will fill in on “Fox & Friends” once Hasselbeck leaves until a permanent co-host is named.
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