Megyn Kelly uses Trump's menstruation jab to slam Kimmel's wife's speech: 'Bleeding out of wherever'

Megyn Kelly criticized Molly McNearney for talking about her period in her speech at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2025 Women in Entertainment breakfast
PUBLISHED DEC 9, 2025
Megyn Kelly criticized Molly McNearney’s Women in Entertainment speech, invoking Donald Trump’s 2015 remark (Getty Images)
Megyn Kelly criticized Molly McNearney’s Women in Entertainment speech, invoking Donald Trump’s 2015 remark (Getty Images)

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Megyn Kelly walked straight into old wounds and new controversy on the Monday, December 8 episode of 'The Megyn Kelly Show'.

The 54-year-old host used Molly McNearney’s ‘Women in Entertainment’ keynote to revisit Donald Trump’s infamous “blood coming out of her wherever” jab — a remark that defined one of the most explosive moments of the 2016 campaign. This time, Kelly flipped the reference to go after McNearney and what she called the left’s “selective outrage.”

Journalist and media personality Megyn Kelly attends the Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. In addition to meeting with the Senate Finance Committee, Kennedy will also meet with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee tomorrow. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Megyn Kelly attends the Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

Megyn Kelly revives Trump’s 2015 jab while ripping Molly McNearney’s speech

Kelly didn’t hold back as she reacted to McNearney’s buzzy speech at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2025 Women in Entertainment breakfast. McNearney, 46, used humor to open a conversation about censorship, freedom of speech, and menopause and Kelly seized on the moment.



“She’s on a tear,” Kelly said, taking aim at the event’s tone. “She’s in front of women. So we have to talk about bleeding out of our wherevers, because that’s what defines us. Okay, we got it.”

Megyn Kelly is seen on The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Megyn Kelly is seen on The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024, in New York City (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Kelly then made the sharp comparison she’d been building toward: “Didn’t President Trump take a whole lot of s**t for making that point? Only you get honored if you say it as a leftist. If it’s all about your period and you’re on the Left, it’s great. You get an award.”

Molly McNearney used humor to talk about censorship and the Trump era

McNearney’s keynote focused on free speech after her husband Jimmy Kimmel’s show was suspended for a week this fall, following jokes made about Charlie Kirk’s death. She told the audience she once believed free speech was guaranteed until September 16, 2025, when the suspension hit.

Jimmy Kimmel (L) and Molly McNearney attend the annual Keep Memory Alive
Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney attend the annual Keep Memory Alive 'Power of Love' gala benefit for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health honoring Kimmel at MGM Grand Garden Arena on February 22, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

“I naively assumed it was a guarantee in this country,” she said. “It’s something that I took for granted. It’s something I thought I’d always have, like my period. Did you guys know that those just stop? They just stop.”

She added that freedoms can “stop” too, referencing not just this year’s controversy, but the 2022 overturning of Roe v.Wade. She described watching her colleagues “be put on indefinite suspension after our very thin-skinned president asked for his removal.”

Megyn Kelly’s history with Trump adds new intensity to the criticism

Kelly’s jab carried extra sting because of her own past with Trump. In 2015, after she pressed him on his comments about women during a GOP debate, Trump infamously told CNN: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.”

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media following a meeting with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim ibn Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani aboard Air Force One during a refueling stop at Al-Udeid Air Base on October 25, 2025 in Abu Nakhlah, Qatar.  (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media following a meeting with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim ibn Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani aboard Air Force One during a refueling stop at Al-Udeid Air Base on October 25, 2025, in Abu Nakhlah, Qatar (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The remark became one of the most defining flashpoints of the election and left Kelly enduring years of mocking, harassment, and political blowback.

Now, Kelly is using that same line to attack McNearney. Her message was clear: she believes the outrage she endured a decade ago is not applied evenly.

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