'Bizarre': Kellyanne Conway reportedly confronted a 'shaken' Meghan McCain over old grudge
Kellyanne Conway, the former senior counselor and current confidante to Donald Trump, confronted fellow conservative Meghan McCain over comments McCain made about Conway's marriage on The View, according to a Saturday report.
Conway, who is now divorced from the anti-Trump conservative attorney George Conway, was appearing at the same event alongside McCain, who was once a host on The View and is now a podcaster. It was like a scene from "Real Housewives," according to the Daily Beast.
"Top Donald Trump confidante Kellyanne Conway confronted fellow conservative Meghan McCain backstage at a women’s summit, witnesses tell the Daily Beast," the outlet reported over the weekend.
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The report says the "tête-à-tête was over a grudge Conway has held for many years against McCain, for describing her and her then-husband George Conway as 'gross' during TV appearances on The View and Watch What Happens Live."
It continues:
"Conway confronted McCain after the two appeared together on a panel at The Washington Post’s post-election Global Women’s Summit. The event was organized by Tina Brown, the founder of the Daily Beast. After the on-stage panel discussion about the effect of the election on women ended, Conway confronted McCain in the green room just off stage in a scene 'like something from the Real Housewives,' an eyewitness told the Beast."
Conway, who has remained close to Trump despite her ex-husband and daughter being critical of the Republican former and incoming President, reportedly said that she calmly addressed the issue with McCain.
"I waited until the cameras and microphones were off to privately and calmly address the very public insults she has directed at my family," Conway reportedly told the Beast. "She may wish to outrun her recent past as a years-long resident Mean Girl on The View and Bravo, where her mouth was a spigot of vile and bile hurled toward people and topics she does not know, including my marriage and children, and casually lying about silly things like me calling her (I don’t have her number).”
As for McCain, who has criticized and defended Trump depending on the situation, she was reportedly "shaken" from the encounter.
"It was a bizarre experience and certainly not what I expected when I accepted an invitation to speak at an event hosted by the Washington Post and Tina Brown," she told the outlet. "The only reason why their marriage was ever a hot topic was because they were constantly airing their dirty laundry to America.”