Former House Speaker John Boehner John Andrew BoehnerLongtime House parliamentarian to step down Five things we learned from this year's primaries Bad blood between Pelosi, Meadows complicates coronavirus talks MORE (R-Ohio) says he used to be friendly with Fox News host Sean Hannity and conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, but the two went over "to the dark side."

During an interview with Politico published Monday, Boehner John Andrew BoehnerLongtime House parliamentarian to step down Five things we learned from this year's primaries Bad blood between Pelosi, Meadows complicates coronavirus talks MORE said he "always liked" Limbaugh.

"When I went to Palm Beach I would always meet with Rush and we’d go play golf. But you know, who was that right-wing guy, [Mark] Levin?" he said, referring to another conservative radio host.

"He went really crazy, right, and got a big audience, and he dragged [Sean] Hannity to the dark side. He dragged Rush to the dark side."

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Boehner said he used to talk to the two "all the time."

"And suddenly they’re beating the living shit out of me," he said.

“I had a conversation with Hannity, probably about the beginning of 2015. I called him and said, ‘Listen, you’re nuts.’ We had this really blunt conversation. Things were better for a few months, and then it got back to being the same-old, same-old. Because I wasn’t going to be a right-wing idiot.”

Hannity hit back at Boehner on Twitter, disputing the former speaker's account.