New York- The Fox News employee suing Bill O’Reilly is drowning in debt, Page Six has learned. Andrea Mackris, who’s being countersued by Fox and O’Reilly for trying to extort them out of $60 million with “scurrilous” sex-harassment charges, is $99,000 in the red, thanks to credit-card bills and student loans, a source said.

On Wednesday, Fox lawyer Ron Green told ABC that Mackris had confessed her money woes to co-workers before she filed her suit last week. “She was a financially challenged woman, maybe financially desperate, when she told co-workers she intended to bring down O’Reilly and Fox, get $1 million from them and buy the apartment in New York City that she always wanted and couldn’t afford,” he said. Mackris’ lawyer, Benedict Morelli, and Green did not return calls for comment yesterday.