Chicago Radio: Kathy Hart Won't Say Why She Left WTMX

Kathy Hart

During the six months she was absent from “The Eric and Kathy Show” last year, Kathy Hart says she underwent treatment for headaches, dizziness and “some other unpleasantries that I won’t share.”

Chicago Media Watcher Robert Feder writes that during the first of three guest-hosting appearances on Tribune Broadcasting news/talk WGN 720-AM, Hart disclosed that she had been suffering from Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) caused by water-damage mold.

“So basically what I had to do was detox my body from all of these symptoms,” she said.

But Hart continued to be vague when WGN weekend host Frank Fontana asked why she walked out of Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary WTMX 101.9 FM after 21 years as morning co-host with Eric Ferguson. “It’s none of your business,” she said.

“It’s really difficult to answer that. It certainly was an unorthodox way to leave a show. Usually I’m not a woman of mystery, but I have to say that it was kind of fun having the little bit of mystery out there.”