Don Lemon: My Remarks on Nikki Haley’s ‘Prime’ Were ‘Totally Misconstrued’
Don Lemon says his widely condemned on-air comments about Nikki Haley being past her “prime” were “totally misconstrued.”
The former CNN host was fired last year by the network two months after he made the remarks during his ill-fated run on CNN This Morning. Lemon spoke about the incident in a new interview with The New York Times ahead of the release of his new memoir this week.
“That was totally misconstrued,” Lemon told the Times of his comments about Haley, who was at the time running for the Republican presidential nomination. He meant to convey that the general public might consider Haley a has-been, the newspaper reports, rather than expressing a view that he personally held.