Former ESPN anchor Max McGee has made his first public comments about his 2024 termination from the network after a female employee filed a complaint against him.
McGee took to Instagram on Friday, June 19, where he shared his perspective related to the HR investigation that led to his firing.
“People have asked me ever since what happened,” he said. “The honest answer is that I can only tell you what I know. I was never provided the specific details of the complaint that ultimately led to that decision. I asked questions, I looked for answers, and I left that process with more uncertainty than clarity.”
He continued, “For the last two years, I’ve mostly stayed quiet. Not because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I was trying to do what I thought was the right thing. What made it difficult was this wasn’t just a job — this was something I worked years toward.”
McGee explained that in the aftermath of his firing, he has moved back home, driven for Uber, gone through “interview after interview” and wondered if he would be able to come back from losing his job.
“Now I’m not making this video to attack anyone [or] blame anyone, and I’m not asking for sympathy,” he said. “I’m making it because the silence has allowed other people to tell the story for me.”
McGee did not go into specifics about the nature of the complaint against him or how the investigation played out, focusing instead on his response to losing his job.
“I’ve questioned myself. I’ve been angry, I’ve been embarrassed, I’ve been disappointed, and I’ve wondered whether I’d ever work in television again,” he said. “But I’ve also learned something: You don’t always get closure. You don’t always get a perfect explanation. Sometimes all you can decide is whether you’re going to keep going.”
ESPN first hired McGee in January 2022 after he spent three years as a news anchor for CBS Baltimore, according to his LinkedIn page. His previous jobs took him to Philadelphia, Louisiana and South Carolina after he graduated from Temple University in 2015.
McGee’s LinkedIn does not list an employer more recent than ESPN, though his Instagram page remains active with frequent videos of self-produced sports content.
ESPN terminated McGee in February 2024, but the company has not commented on the matter and the HR investigation didn’t come to light until a story in The Athletic ran that December.
