Meghan McCain revealed that Joy Behar served as the final catalyst for her leaving The View.
The former morning show co-host told The Commentary Magazine Podcast on Thursday that Behar’s response to her return from maternity leave in January 2021 after giving birth to her daughter, Liberty, made her realize that the work wasn’t worth it.
“I finally came back on the show, and the day I came back on the show, Joy Behar said on the air, ‘Nobody missed you, we didn’t miss you, you shouldn’t have come back,'” McCain, 37 years old, he recalled.
“And I just… I started crying hysterically. I’m sorry, gentlemen, I know, I just started lactating in the air and started crying.”
McCain said she went back to her office and threw up before calling her brother, who convinced her to leave the ABC talk show.
“I didn’t feel supported when I had my baby, and I didn’t feel supported going back, and that was it eventually,” she added. “That’s why I left!”
Since leaving in July 2021, the conservative personality has spoken out about her negative experience on the show, especially when it came to Behar, 79, and Whoopi Goldberg.
“The thing about Whoopi, though, is that she has so much power in culture and television, and once she gets around, she can create an unfathomable tension at the table,” McCain said in his audio memoir, Bad Republican.
“I found her open disdain for me increasingly difficult to handle as the years passed and it became more frequent. Occasionally, if the show’s political discourse veered into territory she found distasteful, Whoopi cut me off, sometimes harshly.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro were just announced as McCain’s replacements on The View.
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