Megyn Kelly's Darkest Secrets

SHE’S AIMED FOR THE SENSATIONAL AND CONTROVERSIAL IN HER UNEVEN EARLY DAYS AS AN NBC NEWS PERSONALITY. FITTINGLY, AS STAR HAS LEARNED, MEGYN’S AND HER FAMILY’S EXPERIENCES COULD FILL AN ENTIRE PRIME-TIME SPECIAL.

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IN her 2016 memoir Settle for More, Megyn Kelly recalls the nightly discussions around the dinner table with her parents and siblings at their home in upstate Delmar, N.Y. “Dad would ask each of us, ‘What’s the report?’ We’d have to tell him what we’d learned or done that day. When it was my turn, I would prattle on. ‘Make her shut up!’ my brother and sister would plead.”

All these years later, Megyn (whose tenure as the new high-priced on-air personality at NBC News — and future cohost of Today — has gotten off to a rocky start) remains strong-willed and outspoken. That does not, however, include discussing the skeletons in her own closet, including a controversial divorce from her first husband — and the heartbreaking backstory about her troubled older sister.

“Megyn is certainly her own person; she’s not afraid to say what’s on her mind,” an insider tells Star. “But as big as she’s gotten, she probably does want to keep some controversial personal subjects off-limits.”

SIBLING STRIFE

One of the subjects Megyn, 46, seems to have kept at arm’s length is the tragic life of her older sister, Suzanne Kelly — in fact, she seems to have kept Suzanne herself at arm’s length for a number of years. Megyn paints a rosy picture of their relationship in Settle for More, though it’s limited to their childhood years, with an anecdote about getting a stuffed bear from her. “God, how I loved that bear,” Megyn wrote. “And I loved Suzanne for giving it to me.” Sadly, as Star has exclusively learned, that affection appears to have waned in their adult years, as Suzanne, now 53, started down a dark path — and was trapped in a shocking marriage that seems more like the plot of a pulp novel.