Former ESPN host Sage Steele has opened up about the personal fallout she suffered after filing a lawsuit against the sporting giant in 2022.
During an appearance on The Katie Miller Show first obtained by the Daily Mail, Steele said that she saw many of her closest friends turn on her publicly during the legal battle.
‘That is literally still the hardest, saddest thing for me,’ she said.
‘They were in my home, with my children, with my family, with my parents, and for them to not just disappear … that’s one thing. It’s another thing to attack [me] publicly, and that’s just where I was so confused and shocked,’ she explained.
‘I’m an emotional person, so I cried a lot.’
Steele said that she never wanted or expected her friends to defend her, but she never expected them to turn on her publicly either.
Since parting ways with ESPN, Steele has come out as a proud supporter of President Donald Trump and was even part of his 2024 campaign.
Her ESPN suspension came in part due to her comments about former President Barack Obama.
Former ESPN host Sage Steele has opened up about the personal fallout she suffered after filing a lawsuit against the sporting giant in 2022
During a podcast appearance with Jay Cutler, Steele stated she did not like Obama calling himself Black because, like herself, he has a white mother.
Steele eventually left ESPN last year after settling a lawsuit against the company, claiming it censored her free speech.
She later claimed during her time at ESPN that the network asked her not to talk about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
Thomas represented the University of Pennsylvania as a male athlete before transitioning to compete as a woman. She went on to win a female national championship.
Steele was among those who voiced their opposition on social media to Thomas and other biological males competing in women’s sports.
Steele also spoke out after ESPN fired her friend Sam Ponder last year.
‘This is another loss for ESPN, but it is a gain for literally the rest of the world because now you’re going to see the true Sam Ponder,’ Steele said on social media at the time.
Since parting ways with ESPN, Steele has carved out a niche for herself in conservative media.
During an appearance on The Katie Miller Show, Steele said that she saw many of her closest friends turn on her publicly during the legal battle
Miller, who has been married to Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller since 2020, launched the podcast this week with JD Vance as her first guest
She hosts a conservative podcast on Bill Maher’s network and has also worked with the Daily Wire.
Steele was one of the first people that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt invited to sit in the ‘new media’ seat in the White House briefing room, a seat near the front of the room that was previously reserved for staff.
She asked Leavitt about how much the president would pressure the U.S. Senate to move on a a House-passed bill that bars transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Her early February appearance in the briefing room was timed to coincide with Trump signing an executive order on the same topic.
Steele has also formed a close friendship with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and came to support her on Capitol Hill during the ex-congresswoman’s Senate confirmation hearings.
Steele was one of the first guests on Stephen Miller’s wife Katie’s new podcast, The Katie Miller Show.
Miller, who has been married to Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller since 2020, launched the podcast this week with Vice President JD Vance as her first guest.
Announcing the project, Miller said, ‘For years, I’ve seen that there isn’t a place for conservative women to gather online, and so I wanted to create that space.’
Miller previously served as a spokesperson for the Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk before departing to start her podcast.
The interview will air on Monday at 6pm ET. Listeners can subscribe on YouTube, Spotify and Apple.
The interview will also be available on X and Rumble.
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