McNearney was the keynote speaker at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment<\/a> 2025 breakfast gala Wednesday, where she described Kimmel\u2019s suspension as a moment she realized she had taken freedom of speech for granted.<\/p>\n “I’ve been asked to speak about freedom of speech and, I have to be honest, I naively assumed it was a guarantee in this country until Sept. 16, 2025,” McNearney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s something that I took for granted. Something I thought I\u2019d always have, like my period. Did you guys know that those just stop? They just stop.<\/p>\n KIMMEL’S WIFE SAYS DAUGHTER ‘BURST INTO TEARS’ AFTER DAD’S SHOW SUSPENDED, SON ASKED IF TRUMP WAS RESPONSIBLE<\/a><\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel’s show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” was briefly suspended in September after controversial comments related to Charlie Kirk’s assassin. (Randy Holmes\/Disney via Getty Images)<\/p>\n “And it turns out your freedom in this country can too. We experienced it most recently in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and we got another taste of it two months ago. I watched a show, co-workers, friends and the man I love be put on \u2018indefinite suspension\u2019 after our thin-skinned president asked for his removal and his FCC chair publicly threatened the company we work for. It is a fragile time for freedom.”<\/p>\n Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to the Federal Communications Commission and the White House for comment.<\/p>\n JIMMY KIMMEL REVEALS HE NEVER THOUGHT HIS SHOW WOULD BE BACK ON AIR<\/a><\/p>\n Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended<\/a> by ABC and parent company Disney in September after he accused conservatives of reaching “new lows” in trying to pin a left-wing ideology on Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson, even though prosecutors reaffirmed those ties in an earlier indictment.<\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel’s show was brought back after less than a week off the air. (Michael Le Brecht\/Disney via Getty Images)<\/p>\n “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.<\/p>\n BILL MAHER CALLS OUT JIMMY KIMMEL’S WIFE FOR GIVING TRUMP-VOTING FAMILY MEMBERS AN ‘ULTIMATUM’ ON POLITICS<\/a><\/p>\n Kimmel’s show returned less than one week later after backlash from liberal commentators and celebrities<\/a>.<\/p>\n McNearney described last month on the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast how she felt “angry all the time<\/a>” toward family members who voted for President Donald Trump after what happened to her husband.<\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel and wife Molly McNearney at the 75th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles Jan. 15, 2024.\u00a0 (Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Jimmy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kimmel-sept-episode.jpg\")
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