Megyn Kelly Blasts Beyoncé For ‘Playing Victim’ By Using Clip Of Her On ‘Cowboy Carter’ Tour

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Baila Eve ZismanJune 3, 2025, 12:14 pmNews >

Megyn Kelly is outraged that musical icon Beyoncé has used footage of the political commentator as part of the visuals on her Cowboy Carter tour.

In a recent clip from The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly shared she just became aware that “Beyoncé, who’s on some world tour right now reinventing herself as a country star, is running videotape during the show of yours truly.”

Beyoncé kicked off her world tour in support of her Billboard 200-topping country album, in which she explores the rich history of African American country music and collaborates with veteran country artists such as Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson. Each show on the tour so far has featured a brief, blurred-out clip of Kelly asserting Beyoncé “decided to stick her big toe into the lane [country music]” from when she appeared on Australia’s Sky News.

On The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly declared, “[Beyoncé] had to scour the internet to find anybody who offered any criticism of this move whatsoever. Here is another one of the most privileged, beloved women in the world…and richest based on her own fortune, never mind the man she’s married to, but still has to look for the one sliver where she could play the victim and be aggrieved because big bad Megyn Kelly said something completely milquetoast about her entry into country music.”

“You’re not allowed to rip on her,” Kelly said. “Too bad. The more untouchable you tell me somebody is, the more likely I am to want to hit them.”

Kelly continued to criticize Beyoncé’s transition into the music genre, saying, “She and her marketing people were treating that entry [into country music] like the second coming, like, ‘it’s Jesus incarnate, he’s back. All hail Queen Bey. She’s here to rescue country music,’…which was a perfectly thriving industry long before Beyoncé showed up.”

Kelly railed on, “Someone who posted it online referred to me as a white supremacist, I guess because I didn’t bow down to Queen Bey as she walked into country music.”

Kelly recently made headlines saying that it was “ridiculous” that Blake Lively was included in the Time 100 Most Influential People.