Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has admitted he thought his show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” was over after ABC suspended the show following comments he made related to the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel fielded questions about what happened behind the scenes of the suspension for the first time at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles last Wednesday.

“A list of demands was presented to me, and I was not going to go along with any of them,” the host said at the conference “And it’s like, well, I guess we’re done. I said to my wife, ‘That’s it. It’s over.’”

Part of the list of demands from ABC affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair included that Kimmel would issue an apology for his comments on Kirk’s death.

Kimmel said he wanted the chance to explai

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