“She said no woman should ever have to laugh that off.” – Jesse Watters faces EXPLOSIVE backlash after his controversial dating confession resurfaces, with Jessica Tarlov publicly condemning what she called a “predatory and disturbing” attitude toward workplace relationships.

The controversy reignited after an old clip of Watters describing how he pursued his now-wife while she worked on his team went viral again, sparking outrage across social media. Critics called it manipulative and inappropriate, while supporters insisted it was harmless humor. But when Tarlov, his Fox News co-host, broke her silence, the tone shifted completely. Her emotional on-air reaction drew millions of views overnight, as she questioned the culture that allows powerful men to treat boundaries as jokes.

Did Watters go too far, or is this another case of outrage spinning out of control? The full exchange between Tarlov and Watters has left audiences stunned. Watch what really happened before the clip disappears.

Fox News host Jesse Watters has come under fire after a clip resurfaced of him discussing the alleged way he first made a move on his now-wife.

In the video, which came from a segment which first aired on Fox in 2022, Watters, now 47, admitted to deflating the car tires of a then-25-year-old fellow Fox staffer so he could offer her a ride home.

Watters, who was 39 at the time, was married to another woman he had also met at work.

In the clip, he told his co-hosts the woman in question was Emma DiGiovine, who he went on to marry in December 2019.

‘When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, let the air out of her tires,’ he said with a grin.

‘She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said, “Hey you need a lift?” She got right into the car.’

He has since claimed that the story he told wasn’t true and that it was actually all a joke.

After his co-hosts expressed their shock in the original clip, Watters said that his now-wife was unaware of his move to this day.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters (seen this month) has come under fire after a clip resurfaced of him discussing how the controversial way he first made a move on his now-wife

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In the video, Watters, now 47, admitted to deflating the car tires of a 25-year-old fellow Fox staffer so he could offer her a ride home. He and his wife are seen in 2023

He also appeared to justify his actions by stating that the pair are now married, insisting: ‘It has a happy ending.’

Another of his colleagues asked if he had taken the air out of other women’s cars in order to get them into his own, which the Fox host implied that he may well have done.

‘Is that the first time you did it, or did you use that before?’ Jeannine Pirro inquired.

‘It works like a charm!’ he bragged.

The clip was picked up by online news show The Young Turks at the time, and was slammed by the hosts, who branded his alleged dating trick as ‘predatory.’

‘Not only [was Watters story] insanely creepy and predatory, but Watters also played it off like it was a perfectly normal thing to do,’ the outraged hosts wrote in the video’s description.

Political commentator Cenk Uygur added that Watters’ story made the Fox host seem like a ‘stalker.’

‘While she reported into you, you vandalized her car so she couldn’t get home,’ he said incredulously. ‘She would be trapped and need your assistance, so you could have a captive audience.’

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Watters made the bizarre on-air admission in 2022 during a segment on The Five on Fox

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After his co-hosts expressed their shock over the story, Watters claimed that his wife (seen) was unaware of his devious plan to this day

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It was 2018 when Watters was divorcing his first wife Noelle Watters, pictured, who is mother to his twin daughters

‘There are plenty of daughters who deal with predatory behavior from their bosses, that’s what Me Too started off as being about,’ host Ana Kasparian pointed out. ‘And I don’t know that the culture has really changed all that much.’

Earlier this week on The Five, Watters addressed his old comments and claimed that he never actually deflated Emma’s tires and that it was all a joke.

‘There’s a rumor about me that I started, that I let the air out of Emma’s tires in order to get with her. I never did that,’ he said. ‘It was a joke.’

Watters also met his first wife, Noelle Inguagiato, while working at Fox News. They welcomed twin daughters Sophie and Ellie in 2011.

The couple finalized their divorce in March 2019, with Watters wasting no time and tying the knot to DiGiovine later that year.

They went on to welcome two children: a son Jesse Jr. who was born in 2021 and a daughter Georgina born in 2023.