FOX NEWS: Glenn Beck Was 'Trying To Save His Ass' When He Left The Network

"Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass," a Fox News spokesperson said, as first reported by Politico. "Advertisers fled his show and even Glenn knows what that means in our industry. Yet, we still tried to give him a soft landing. Guess no good deed goes unpunished."

In an appearance at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards in New York on Friday, Beck recalled to the audience a conversation he had with Fox News president Roger Ailes about leaving the network.

"He said, 'You're not going to leave,'" Beck said. "And I said, 'Yeah, I am.' But he said, 'Nobody does.' He means television. "Because it's an intoxicating thing. It really is truly intoxicating and hard to detox from it.

"And I said, 'No. I'm really fortunate that I haven't been in it very long. And so I still remember who I am. And I know what this big, huge Fox empire brought to the table. And I knew that if I didn't [leave], I would become something that I wasn't, because I would become too enamored with that. I would want that."