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On Thursday, former ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele dropped a stunning revelation while speaking with Tucker Carlson. 

Steele had worked for ESPN for 17 years before resigning in 2023, and revealed that asking any uncomfortable questions about the COVID-19 injections was “absolutely not allowed” and “they were never asked on the network.” 

In 2021, Steele made headlines for her critical comments regarding ESPN’s and The Walt Disney Company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees. While appearing on the podcast “Uncut with Jay Cutler,” that year, she expressed that she disagreed with the mandates, and expressed her belief that such policies infringe on personal freedoms. 

“I respect everyone’s decision, I really do, but to mandate it is sick, and it’s scary to me in many ways,” she said at the time.

While Steele criticized the mandate, she revealed that she had gotten vaccinated, citing her desire to continue in her job and support her family as the primary reasons for her compliance.

“I didn’t want to do it. But I work for a company that mandates it, and I had until September 30th to get it done, or I’m out,” she told Cutler.

After speaking with Cutler, Steele was pulled from the air and told to apologize for her comments, but did not leave the network until 2023. 

Now, Steele has revealed more information about her time with ESPN in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“I had to lie a lot about things that I didn’t agree with that we were doing on the air,” Steele began, explaining that she was not allowed “to ask specific questions about, you know, when we had athletes all of a sudden collapse. Lebron’s son, it’s a fair question to ask if he had had the vaccine.”

“And it wasn’t just me. It was other pieces that were done on ‘Outside the Lines’ about it. But to me, I don’t care if you’re LeBron’s son, or if you’re my neighbor … if an 18-year-old kid is suddenly collapsing … like, any potential reason for this sudden collapse, you’re going to ask as a journalist,” she continued. “I’m not saying it was the vax because I don’t know. I’m not a doctor. I get it. But we must ask this question. But those questions were absolutely not allowed, and they were never asked on the network.”

“I mean, I believe you and I have certainly seen a lot of that working in the media, but you got to wonder about the motive,” Carlson added. “I mean, why would ESPN want to run cover for Pfizer? Like, why do they care? But they do care so much.”

 “I don’t know. Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, CDC, Fauci. Like, it goes deep, right?” Steele responded. “Disney, though. And I mean, I think we have to remember who runs ESPN.”