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Megyn Kelly | AP Report: Megyn Kelly memoir details sexual harassment by Roger Ailes

In her soon-to-be-published memoir, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has included details about being sexually harassed by former Fox News boss Roger Ailes.

Passages from the book, which Radar Online says it obtained, allege that Ailes began harassing Kelly the summer of 2005 and included “inappropriate sexually charged comments” as well as “physical advances.” The alleged harassment lasted about six months and ended after Kelly reported Ailes to a supervisor, Kelly wrote.

“There was a pattern to his behavior,” Kelly wrote. “I would be called into Roger’s office, he would shut the door, and over the next hour or two, he would engage in a kind of cat-and-mouse game with me — veering between obviously inappropriate sexually charged comments (e.g. about the ‘very sexy bras’ I must have and how he’d like to see me in them) and legitimate professional advice.”

Kelly alleges that Ailes offered to advance her career “in exchange for sexual favors,” but that she rejected his advances.

In the copy of the book, Kelly also writes that she came forward to investigators after allegations that other women, including former Fox News show host Gretchen Carlson, had experienced similar behavior. The passage confirms earlier reporting from New York magazine that reported that Kelly was one of several women at the company who told internal investigators about their stories of being harassed by Ailes.

“Crossing him was a major risk, but what if — God forbid — he was still doing it to someone?” Kelly writes in the book.

Kelly had previously remained quiet about any discussions with the investigation, and she had not spoken publicly about her relationship with Ailes.

Ailes, who left the company amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations and a lawsuit from Carlson, has vehemently denied all the allegations. 21st Century Fox, parent of Fox News, paid Carlson $20 million to settle the sexual harassment lawsuit with Carlson; Ailes and the company still face another sexual harassment suit from former Fox pundit Andrea Tantaros, who alleges similar treatment.

Vanity Fair reported in October that Kelly was adding a chapter about her former boss in her upcoming book, "Settle for More." It was unclear at the time what that chapter would entail.

