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Megyn Kelly launched her news comeback Friday with an exclusive interview with a former ABC News producer who was accused of leaking the Amy Robach “hot mic” clip— but who tearfully denies doing so.

The producer, Ashley Bianco, 25, was fired from a new job at CBS last week after her former bosses identified her — wrongly, she insists — as the leak.

“I’m not the whistleblower,” she sobs at one point.

“I just want my career back. I want people to know I didn’t do it. That’s all I want.”

“Did you leak the tape?” Kelly asks Bianco, as the interview begins.

“No, I did not,” Bianco answers.

“Not to anyone?” Kelly asks.

Again, Bianco insists, “No.”

Bianco had been at her desk at ABC on Aug. 19, the day of the hot mic mishap.

She told Kelly that she watched live as Robach, who co-hosts “Good Morning America” and “20/20,” blasted into her bosses during a break from taping show promos for the network’s affiliate stations.

Apparently not realizing she was miked, Robach claimed that three years prior, the network had buried her reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein sex-slave scandal — a claim she later backed off of.

“Everyone in the office was freaked out by what she was saying,” Bianco said of watching the live faux pas. “And everyone was watching it.”

Bianco admitted she immediately marked and copied Robach’s fiery comments, but insisted she never removed the clip from the network’s internal system.

“I essentially marked it in the system. I never left the system. We do it all the time,” Bianco told Kelly.

“I did it just for the office gossip, you know?” Bianco explained.

“Part of my job is, I’m like a video editor. You know, I clip off moments all the time. I put together, you know, funny anchor reels, of them off-camera doing funny stuff to use it later in the show.”

Bianco said she had nothing but fondness for ABC, and no intention or motive to embarrass the network.

“I only left purely because CBS had had offered me a good contract,” she told Kelly. “So I, you know, I left and I was just really, really excited to start a new job.”

But the clip was leaked to the conservative media critics at Project Veritas, causing a firestorm at ABC.

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe has since confirmed that Bianco was not the source of the leak.

“She is not our source,” O’Keefe told The Dana Show Friday.

“CBS fired a woman, Ashley Bianco is apparently her name, she is not the person who is our Project Veritas insider.”

The actual leaker has also come forward — anonymously, on the Project Veritas website — to clear Bianco.

Realizing that Bianco had copied the clip, ABC called CBS — where Bianco was fired just four days into her new job, she said.

“I begged, I pleaded, I didn’t know what I had done wrong,” Bianco sobbed to Kelly, who looks on consolingly.

“I wasn’t even given the professional courtesy to defend myself. I didn’t know what I was accused of. It was humiliating. It was devastating,” Bianco cried.

She never made contact to anyone at Project Veritas, she insisted.

Asked by Kelly for her reaction on learning that ABC had called her new bosses, Bianco said, “Devastated. I mean, it’s like I’ll never get a job anywhere else.”

Kelly answers reassuringly, “You’ll get a job. You’ll definitely get a job.”

Kelly had promoted the interview earlier Friday in an inaugural Internet post, telling potential viewers, “We just sat down with her, and we got the full story, and I think you are going to be fascinated by it.”

The Robach hot mic clip had left network bigs scrambling to contain the fallout.

In the clip, which was leaked to the conservative media gadflies at Project Veritas, Robach blasts her bosses for responding to her reporting by asking her “Who’s Jeffrey Epstein?”

Kelly has been mostly off the air for the past year and is launching an independent news venture rather than return to Fox News, despite an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show last month.

In Friday’s Instagram teaser, Kelly promises the “really interesting” interview will be available on Instagram and YouTube.

“I think you’re going to find it just as riveting as we did,” she said. “See you soon.”