Rittenhouse said attorneys Lin Wood and John Pierce kept him in jail for 87 days 'against his wishes'

• On Friday, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges in his homicide trial.
• Rittenhouse told Tucker Carlson his original attorneys kept him in jail against his wishes.

Kyle Rittenhouse said his first pair of attorneys, Lin Wood and John Pierce, didn't respect his wishes and kept him in jail for 87 days.

"He held me in jail for 87 days, disrespected my wishes, put me on media interviews, which I should never have done," Rittenhouse said about Wood in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

Rittenhouse said Wood had him talk to The Washington Post, which he didn't think was a good idea. He said Wood and Pierce were trying to raise money so "they could take it for their own benefit," not to set him free.

Rittenhouse told Carlson that Wood and Pierce said he was "safer in jail instead of at home" with his family.

"87 days of not being with my family for defending myself and being taking advantage to, being used for a cause by John Pierce and Lin Wood trying to raise money so they can take it for their own benefit, not trying to set me free," he said.

Rittenhouse, who on Friday was found not guilty of the five charges brought against him, said Pierce portrayed him as a militia member.

"No wonder people are saying I'm in a militia. It's because he painted that narrative, which he should never have gone there," he told Carlson of Pierce.

Mark Richards, Rittenhouse's current attorney, told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Friday that Wood was an "idiot" for letting Rittenhouse talk to The Post while he was charged with homicide.

Richards said Wood and Pierce "were basically trying to, I think, whore this kid for money, for their own causes."

"They kept him in Illinois to fight an extradition that was unwinnable 'cause they were raising tons of money on him," Richards said.

On Saturday, Wood sent Richards a letter and said he'd sue over remarks Richards made on CNN. He added that Pierce was the criminal attorney on the case who decided to leave Rittenhouse in jail, and that he was hired to handle defamation.

Richards told Insider on Sunday that he hadn't seen Wood's letter yet, but he stood by what he told Cuomo, and it was his opinion.

"I don't care what his letter says. What I said was truthful," Richards said.

Insider could not reach Wood or Pierce for comment at the time of publication.