Elisabeth Hasselbeck announced her departure from Fox News after two years in a statement this week, and she got teary-eyed while formally announcing it on-air on Tuesday.
Hasselbeck said in her statement on Monday that her decision to leave is based on her desire to put motherhood first. She has three children with husband Tim Hasselbeck; Grace, 10, Taylor, 8, and Isaiah, 6.
“I am taking a new position as CBO -- chief breakfast officer -- at our house with the kids, and that does mean that in about a month, I’ll be leaving my FOX News family,” she said. “I’m in a season where the kids need the best of me, not the rest of me.”
She also told the audience at home and her Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade her decision to leave her “family” at the network was “really, really hard" but she's confident in her "peace of God” about it.
"I am confident that this personal decision is the right one for our family,” she also said in her statement.