A former Fox News producer has altered her deposition testimony in the defamation case against the network, claiming she was coerced by company lawyers to give misleading answers.
Abby Grossberg was fired Friday by Fox News days after she filed her lawsuit in New York and Delaware that alleged discrimination based on gender, religion and disability.
Her suit claims she was bullied and subjected to sexist and antisemitic comments while working as head of booking for the Fox News program “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
An amended lawsuit, which changes a number of answers she provided in the deposition testimony she gave last year, was filed Monday.
Grossberg had been moved to a role as head of booking on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" last year after working as senior booking producer for “Sunday Morning Futures,” the weekly show hosted by Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo's program figures prominently in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox News.
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