Joy Taylor breaks silence on Fox Sports firing months after bombshell sex lawsuit

Joy Taylor has finally spoken out on her Fox Sports split one week after it was revealed the network axed her weekday show. 

The host's nine-year stint at Fox came to an abrupt end after the network reportedly failed to renew her contract four months after she found herself embroiled in a bombshell sex lawsuit. 

Now, the 38-year-old has been left questioning her future in sports media as she addressed her Fox exit for the first time. 

Although Taylor expressed gratitude for the opportunities she's had a female panelist in sports media, she suggested that the events of the past year have left her feeling jaded towards the industry.  

'Overall, like the saying 'it doesn't feel like work when you're doing something that you actually enjoy.' I think what happened to me this year took that away from me,' Taylor said on The Ringer's Higher Learning. 

'I don't know if I'll get that back. I might — and maybe like when the callous forms over the wound and you get away from things you it doesn't feel, like the tremors go away, so we're not there yet — but right now, it doesn't feel that way. It doesn't feel exciting.  

'Like the big dreams seem like 'I'm going to do it but I'm not as excited about it.' And that's kind of s*itty 'cause this has been a lot of work and a lot of passion. But it's been something that I think has come naturally to me because I enjoy it… but the building the work of it all, it doesn't feel the same. Like the dream now is to just disappear.' 

Although her Fox Sports exit is still relatively fresh, Taylor hinted that she had already begun to consider the future of her career before last week's shock news. 

'I don't want to be 70 with a mic,' she said. 'I want to build things for other people to have spaces… not being front-facing allows you the space to still create, but not have this responsibility. And this comes with a lot responsibility, especially if you're somebody like me. And not to toot my horn, but in a lot ways, I am the only me. And that's a lonely experience… there's not a lot comps, if any, to what I do in the space that I'm in.' 

More to follow.