Tomi Lahren filed a wrongful termination lawsuit on Friday against Glenn Back and The Blaze after she was terminated from the conservative show for expressing her pro-choice beliefs on The View.
“My job is my life. This is my life. Without that, I feel lost,” Lahren told ABC News’ Nightline of the lawsuit. “When your outlet is taken away from you and you don’t understand why and you’re so disappointed and you’re so blindsided, it hurts.”
She explained that she went home to Texas after doing The View, only to discover that her show had been taken from her.
“I was getting ready to go in and do my show and I got a phone call saying that show was not on, ‘have been suspended for a week, perhaps longer,’ … I was flabbergasted,” she said.
While Beck and The Blaze have countered that they are continuing to pay Lahren, and therefore has not been terminated, Lahren claims that she has been fired in all regards but payment.
“I get up in the morning and I don’t have a job to go to,” she said. “I don’t sit down in my chair and deliver my ‘Final Thoughts,’ I don’t have a dressing room, so I’m terminated, I’m fired… the way I look at things, I’m not doing what I was contracted to do, which was produce a television show, a political talk show.”
She claims to have been “silenced” and “sidelined” for her political views.
“This is not about politics,” she said. “This is about someone who had an opposing viewpoint that has been silenced and sidelined and thrown away.”