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Don Lemon is looking back on his CNN exit and feeling vindicated after CEO Chris Licht was ousted from the network. In a conversation with Kara Swisher on her podcast 'Pivot', Lemon opened up about being let go from CNN two months after making comments about how Nikki Haley was no longer in her prime.
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00:00Don Lemon is looking back on his CNN exit and feeling vindicated after CEO Chris Licht was
00:06ousted from the network. In a conversation with Kara Swisher on her podcast Pivot, Lemon opened
00:12up about being let go from CNN two months after making comments about how Nikki Haley was no
00:17longer in her prime. Lemon is claiming CNN was getting ready to go in a different direction and
00:22he didn't fit that mold. They did not want me to be a part of that and I think that has from what
00:27has played out publicly as it relates to CNN, as it relates to management and what they're doing
00:31now. I think that it's obvious that they didn't want me to be a part of that and I think that's
00:36a real issue that happened. The former anchor also explained that he hasn't watched the network since
00:40his departure. Lemon also touched on Chris Licht being let go at the network shortly after ousting
00:46him. Read the story and you speak to the people who are there and I think people get what happened.
00:51All you have to do is read the Atlantic story, read the subsequent stories that came out and how it
00:55played out. They're gone now. So do I feel vindicated in that sense? Yes, I do. He also
01:01claimed that had Jeff Zucker been heading the network when Lemon made the comments about Haley
01:05for which he apologized, things would have played out differently. He said in part, he was very
01:10supportive of us and he wanted us to not necessarily be provocative, but just to be ourselves. And if we
01:15got something wrong, we apologized. We explained it and he supported us and we moved on. For more details
01:21on this story, head to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching
01:27The Hollywood Reporter News.
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