Jillian Michaels says leaving the left felt like 'Neo in the Matrix' and warns it 'comes for everyone'

Fitness star Jillian Michaels discusses how the issue of health in America is connecting a wide range of people as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes a step closer to confirmation as health secretary on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ Jillian Michaels described evolving her political views as like Neo in "The Matrix." "Honestly, it felt a bit like Neo in the Matrix at first because I really did think that, you know, when you're on the left, like you're the empathetic one, you're the good guy, you're the one that cares about people," the 52-year-old fitness icon told Dave Rubin on his "The Rubin Report" podcast. Part of her evolution involved marrying a conservative "who let me know that that wasn’t the case," she added. "We had very many fights early on in our relationship." After that, she said she watched the "world invert. Up was down. Right was left. Literally.

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