Kelly teased the interview with Emmy-winning producer Ashley Bianco on social media, promising it would go up on her nascent YouTube channel on Friday. It represents something of a comeback for Kelly, who left her most recent post at NBC under a dark cloud after defending blackface in Halloween costumes on the air, having “gone mainstream” in 2017 after a popular, if controversial, stint with Fox News.

"I begged, I pleaded, I didn't know what I had done wrong and I just, you know, I wasn't even given the professional courtesy to defend myself,” Bianco, 25, told Kelly in an emotional teaser clip. “I didn't know what I had been accused of. It was humiliating. It was devastating.”

Bianco contacted Kelly directly for the interview, according to sources cited by the Daily Mail, after she was fired by CBS on Thursday. ABC, where Bianco had previously worked, informed her new employer that she was behind the leak of footage that showed Good Morning America co-anchor Amy Robach tearing into the network for shelving a story on Epstein three years ago, complete with an interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of his most well-known victims.

Robach suggested network executives had killed the story because they were implicated in Epstein’s crimes, and said she was “100 percent” sure he had not killed himself.

ABC warned CBS of the "traitor" in their midst “as a courtesy,” after discovering Bianco had the footage in her possession - though at the time it was unclear whether she had leaked it to conservative muckraking outlet Project Veritas herself, or passed it on to someone who leaked it.

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