"I just wanted to stop... You'd get past an incident and then it would start again. It was really shocking."

“I just wanted to stop,” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “You’d get past an incident and then it would start again. It was really shocking.”

For months the presidential hopeful spoke out against Kelly, calling her “sick” and “the most overrated person on television.” He encouraged his Twitter followers to boycott her show and just ahead of the Iowa caucus, Trump pulled out of a debate because Fox News executives refused to remove Kelly as a moderator after he felt she not had treated him “fairly.”

“The hate can be very ugly and it can be threatening and it can be off-putting when you’re walking around the city with your kids in particular,” she says.