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Fox News veteran Janice Dean is leaving Fox & Friends due to a severe worsening of symptoms related to her multiple sclerosis, she said.
Dean, 56, made the sudden announcement in an emotional message to X on Thursday.
'Ultimately, my symptoms progressed to the point that I can no longer continue working in my role, and my doctors agreed that stepping away was necessary for my health,' she said in a video.
Dean has been a Fox & Friends cast member for more than two decades.
She joined the network in 2004. She was diagnosed with the debilitating autoimmune disease the following year, she's previously said.
'For a long time, I was able to handle the early mornings, the many hours on my feet, and the stress of broadcasting live,' she told followers on Thursday.
Dean reminded how those who struggle with the disease 'may look fine, but our immune system is attacking the brain, spinal cord, and sometimes, the optic nerve.'
'You're left with permanent scars,' she said. 'Thankfully I was diagnosed early.'
'Ultimately, my symptoms progressed to the point that I can no longer continue working in my role, and my doctors agreed that stepping away was necessary for my health,' longtime Fox & Friends cohost Janice Dean said, decades after her diagnosis
Despite 'different therapies over the past two decades,' Dean's systems recently progressed, she said.
The weather anchor explained how a 'lack of sleep and stress' contributed to her symptoms.
'I was increasingly feeling the effects of my limitations.'
Her symptoms became so pronounced that her 'doctors agreed that stepping away was necessary,' she said.
'There's so many things I'll miss.'
Dean recalled 'friends' and 'places' she's gotten to visit over the years.
'The storms I covered. And the millions of viewers who have invited me into their homes every morning. Through the good times and the bad, the dark clouds and sunshine, you've always been there for me.'
She framed her exit as a 'mostly sunny goodbye.'
'Ultimately, my symptoms progressed to the point that I can no longer continue working in my role, and my doctors agreed that stepping away was necessary for my health,' she said. The weather anchor is seen with a Fox & Friends intern earlier this year
'I know how lucky I was, and that's why it's so hard to say the words,' Dean said, choking up.
'For every goodbye, it's always the next hello. And maybe the chance to meet again one day in a different place at a different time.'
She told viewers to 'take good care' to close, while becoming increasingly emotional.
'Be well, and God bless you all.'
'Thank you,' she said.
A Fox News statement said the network supported Dean's decision on Thursday.
'Throughout her 22-year career with FOX News Media, Janice Dean has inspired viewers with her warmth, resilience, and dedication,' the network said.
'Her willingness to share her personal journeys has touched countless lives and served as a source of strength and encouragement to many.
'We fully support Janice’s courageous decision to step away from her role as senior meteorologist on Fox & Friends and are grateful for her many contributions.'
Dean, meanwhile, told viewers she was stepping away from work and social media 'for a bit' in a post to Facebook published on November 12.
Dean told viewers she was stepping away from work and social media 'for a bit' in a statement late last year
'My bosses at Fox have been kind and understanding, and I feel blessed to be able to take a break to be with my family,' Dean wrote at the time.
A then-recent trip to Rome with husband Sean Newman, a retired New York firefighter, was framed as a 'good place to start healing spiritually.' The two share two sons, Matthew and Theodore.
'And now I have to get back to feeling healthy and strong,' Dean told followers. She did not reveal her specific health issues at the time.
Dean previously wrote about her struggles with MS in her book, Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days.
She recalled to People in a 2024 interview how longtime colleague Neil Cavuto helped her through her diagnosis. Cavuto was diagnosed in 1997 and remains on air.
'I had him to say, "You’re gonna be okay,"' Dean remembered.
Dean made headlines during the pandemic for criticizing networks' 'puff pieces' on former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's pandemic response.
Dean's father-in-law and mother-in-law both both died in an assisted living facilities due to complications of COVID-19.
Dean blamed both deaths on a state advisory from Cuomo that required admissions and readmissions of assisted living and nursing home residents without testing for the deadly virus.
Cuomo was criticized for the policy, after a report found he had understated the toll of COVID-19 deaths in state nursing homes by as much as 50 percent.