Abby Grossberg got off to a flying start at Fox News after she joined the network in 2019 as a senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo.
“We clicked. We hit it off. And our ratings were skyrocketing,” Grossberg said.
But over the next four years, as she tried and failed to get a promotion and then switched to working for Tucker Carlson, Grossberg says she ran up against a hyper misogynistic culture in which walls were plastered with photos of Nancy Pelosi in a plunging bathing suit and male staffers openly debated which female politicians they’d rather have sex with.
It culminated in Grossberg complaining to a supervisor and then moving to file lawsuits alleging that she was harassed, retaliated against and ultimately set up to be the scapegoat in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News.
“They’re a big corporate machine that destroys people,” Grossberg told NBC News in her most extensive interview to date.
“I sat in those meetings. I heard them laugh about tearing apart politicians. Now I know that in those meetings they’re talking about me.”For more on this story, tune in to NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight at 6:30pm ET/5:30pm CT or check your local listings.
Fox News did not respond to specific questions from NBC News following Grossberg’s Wednesday interview.
A network spokesperson previously said that Grossberg’s legal claims were “riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees.” The spokesperson did not specify which allegations the network believed to be false.
The Dominion lawsuit has put the network in a perilous position.
Fox News is accused of repeatedly airing false allegations from Rudy Giuliani and others that the voting machine company “rigged” the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden. The network has said the claims from lawyers for former President Donald Trump were newsworthy and its coverage was protected by the First Amendment.
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