Former “Biggest Loser” star Jillian Michaels said Gov. Gavin Newsom’s disregard for the rules he put into place during his time in office is the reason she ultimately left California.
In a recent interview on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, Michaels audibly groaned when the host told her that he had been “trying to get Gavin to run for president for a very long time.”
“Are you serious? Are we living in Gavin Newsom’s California?” She questioned. “Why?”
Maher deadpanned back that he was “sure her life is just a nightmare” under Newsom’s reign, when Michaels pointed out that she had moved to Miami, Florida because of the Democrat lawmaker.
Jillian Michaels explains how Gavin Newsom's policies led her to move to Florida
Including how Gavin Newsom let out repeat offending criminals and one of them broke into her house in Malibu
"He didn't follow his own rules. If you're going to be a leader you lead by example" pic.twitter.com/JIIvF1k8Vu— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 12, 2024
The “Real Time” host said he has lived in the state since 1983, and loves where he lives, but considered moving to Florida in 2020, when the sun was “blotted out” for a week during the ferocious wildfires.
Maher, a chronic bachelor, put leaving California on par with considering suicide in college and contemplating marriage.
“There are things in your life [where] you’re like, ‘you know what, I might do that,’ and part of you is like ‘yeah, I’m never going to do that,'” he remarked.
“I think moving to Florida is in that category, but I did look at it because I share your frustrations with California,” Maher conceded.
When he asked Michaels if she was “happier in Florida,” she let out relieved “yeah.”
“It feels less crazy then it does [in California],” she replied to Maher’s astonished quip of “Florida is less crazy?”
“That’s where people are on bath salts, f**king an alligator,” he laughed.
Michaels, who is gay, pressed on with a solid points about why she and her family fled the liberal state for a conservative one.
“[Former ESPN host] Sage Steele asked me, she’s like, what was the moment when you felt like California had lost its mind, and it was a piece of legislation that I can’t recall,” Michaels recounted.
“Did it affect your life?” Maher shot back.
Jillian Michaels describes how the pandemic turned her from a leftist into a centrist. Then Bill Maher and Michaels discuss the origins of covid 19
"I went to all my lefty friends 'This came from a lab'. You fucking tin hat you married a conservative you're out of your mind" pic.twitter.com/511Jd3j2Nj— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 12, 2024
“Isn’t crime affecting our lives? Isn’t homelessness affecting our lives?” She responded.
Maher couldn’t believe that crime could impact Michaels, a well-paid television personality, but she explained that her Malibu house was broken into.
She noted that she received a letter during the pandemic which informed her that Gov. Newsom had “let the guy out” of prison.
“It was the guy’s third offense, he broke into our house, he had duct tape and a video camera,” Michaels said about the criminals terrifying intentions for her family.
“Anyway, long story, third strike, guy goes to jail, gets let out during COVID,” she told the astonished host. “I mean give me a f**king break.”
“You’re not going to hold PG&E accountable for that fire in 2018,” which Michaels revealed had burned down her Malibu home.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) pleaded guilty to 84 separate counts of involuntary manslaughter and a felony count of unlawfully starting a November 2018 wildfire known as the Camp Fire.
The blaze that their equipment started destroyed 19,000 buildings and killed 85 people.
Michaels continued to hammer on Newsom for the insane legislation passed during his tenure.
“You’re going to decriminalize everything, regulate nothing,” she listed. “You’re prioritizing the craziest s**t I’ve ever seen in my life. C’mon, really?”
Maher insisted that what matters to him is that Newsom could “win” the Presidential election and he personally likes him.
“I think he’s really smart. Is he a politician? Yes. Is he slick? Good,” he defended. “I’m f**king glad he’s slick, slick people win elections. Clinton was slick, Obama was pretty slick.”
However, when Michaels argued about the way Newsom handled COVID, Maher repeatedly said he was “not for it.”
He couldn’t spin an argument against the fitness guru’s on-point accusations that Newsom “shut the schools forever,” didn’t wear a mask during his infamous lock down-era dinner at the French Laundry, and made California the last state to reopen after the pandemic ended.
Maher tried to insist that Michaels had been “captured,” but by what, he couldn’t specify, as she refused to let him finish the thought.
“He’s a hypocrite and that bothers me,” she shot back. “The rules were absurd.”
“He didn’t follow his own rules,” Michaels concluded. “If you’re going to be a leader, you lead by example.”