Former CNN anchor Don Lemon said on Wednesday that he is quitting Elon Musk's X, a move made less than a year after X announced "The Don Lemon Show" would appear on the social media platform three times a week. The deal was canceled before it was ever signed, and Lemon sued Musk and X over it back in August.

Lemon cites X's updated terms of service, effective on Friday, that require all disputes with the company to be heard in a northern Texas court.

With this, as The Washington Post recently reported on X's decision to alter the terms of service, this 'ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in courthouses that are a hub for conservatives, which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics,'" Lemon said in a statement posted to X. "I think that speaks for itself," he continued.

Earlier this year, X announced a series of video content partnerships with bigger names, including former congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, sports commentator Jim Rome, and-in perhaps the biggest surprise of all-Don Lemon. It was part of a broader video push on X that hasn't yet quite worked out, some eight or nine months later. Lemon at the time said he sympathized with Musk's message about free speech.

Contract talks between X and Lemon collapsed before ever sealing a deal. During the negotiations, Lemon interviewed Musk as a guest on his new show: his first-ever guest on the YouTube-and otherwise also to-be-streamed-exclusively-on-X deal, never an exclusive deal, by the way. Musk visibly agitated and even irritated during that interview, as Lemon prodded the billionaire with stories about his reported ketamine usage and his views on DEI and X's content moderation.

"Choose your questions carefully; you've got 5 minutes left," said Musk at one point in that interview.

A week after that interview, Musk cancelled his deal with Lemon. According to Semafor, Musk sent Lemon's agent an extremely brief but harsh message text: "contract is canceled.".

From there, things went from worse to worst. In August, Lemon filed a lawsuit in a federal court against Musk and X claiming he was tricked into a business arrangement under false pretenses. It is already September and Musk asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit, but this one seems far from over.