In her first interview since filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former boss, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, former Fox News Channel host Gretchen Carlson says she sued “to stand up for what happened to me and what was the truth.”
The interview, published in Wednesday’s New York Times, Carlson defended her decision to remain at Fox despite the harassment she says she was experiencing. “Asked why she was seeking better assignments if she felt she was a victim of harassment, she said: ‘I think it’s hard when you’ve been a victim – you keep thinking things are going to get better.'”
Many of Carlson’s former colleagues have stepped forward to defend Ailes in a series of interviews, and the network did not hesitate Tuesday to point out that Carlson’s former show, The Real Story, had its highest-rated week ever–without her.