Kellyanne Conway confronted Meghan McCain backstage over a years-old assertion the previous “The View” host made. In line with an eyewitness, the previous senior counselor to Donald Trump made a beeline for McCain following the 2024 International Girls’s Summit final week to deal with 2018 feedback she made about Conway’s then-marriage to George Conway.
“Kellyanne walked up to Meghan and said, ‘I wasn’t going to say this while I was miked but do you remember what you said about me and my marriage on ‘The View’?’” the supply recalled to the Each day Beast. “You called my marriage ‘gross.’”
Confronting a “shaking” McCain, the previous marketing campaign supervisor added, “Do you realize what you said and what you did? Do you realize all the people you hurt?”
The witness additional informed the outlet that McCain apologized to Conway, explaining that she “[didn’t] remember” saying something about Conway that “hurt [her].”
The witness added, “Meghan said it was making her uncomfortable but that seemed to make it worse.”
After it was throughout, the insider informed the outlet that Conway regarded “unfazed” whereas the serially on-line podcaster was visibly “shaken” from the backstage conflict.
Commenting on the confrontation Conway recalled to the tabloid, “I waited until the cameras and microphones were off to privately and calmly address the very public insults she has directed at my family.”
She added, “She may wish to outrun her recent past as a years-long resident Mean Girl on ‘The View’ and Bravo, where her mouth was a spigot of vile and bile hurled toward people and topics she does not know, including my marriage and children, and casually lying about silly things like me calling her (I don’t have her number).”
Additionally responding to the awkward trade, McCain informed the Each day Beast, “It was a bizarre experience and certainly not what I expected when I accepted an invitation to speak at an event hosted by The Washington Post and Tina Brown. The only reason why their marriage was ever a hot topic was because they were constantly airing their dirty laundry to America.”
McCain stepped down from “The View” in 2021, however managed to make her media rounds scolding Conway and her very public household drama on the time.
“I think it’s awful and I think that they have four kids that are gonna read this crap and I think it’s awful,” McCain stated throughout an look on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” in 2020.
“I think it’s weird and I don’t care if it’s their kink or whatever I think it’s horrible. … I think they’re both gross.”
Persevering with, McCain added, “Wait can I say one more thing? Don’t call me or email me, Kellyanne. She does that every time I say something.”
Conway has repeatedly denied that she has ever reached out to McCain, stating just lately and in her memoir that she has by no means had McCain’s telephone quantity.
Throughout Trump’s first presidency, Conway and her now-ex-husband George made headlines for his or her painfully awkward opposing views of the convicted felon.
Whereas the lawyer made constant jabs by way of X at Trump, Kellyanne publicly praised the president-elect as she sat at his facet as senior counselor.
The U.S. took discover of this blatant opposition, speculating about their relationship behind the scenes as nicely.
Making it one of many strangest love triangles, Trump additionally joined in on the general public spat, firing off tweets like, “George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted.”
He added, “I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”
They in the end divorced in 2023.
Conway—who stepped down from the administration in 2020—remains to be an avid supporter of Trump as her ex-husband continues to fireside off opinions concerning the Trump administration by way of BlueSky.
