Meghan McCain revealed why she left The View last year. Speaking on The Commentary Magazine Podcast, she said that Joy Behar said something on air to her when she returned from maternity leave in January of 2021. Her departure from the ABC talk show was made official in July of that year.
“The day I went back to the show, Joy Behar said on air, ‘Nobody missed you, we didn’t miss you, you shouldn’t have come back,’ she said. ‘I started hysterically crying. Sorry gentlemen, I know, I started lactating on air, and crying, hysterically.'”
How it was prompted for Behar to say that was from a joke her co-host said. While the two discussed on The View whether or not there should be more than two political parties, the returning mother said to Behar that she was missed when on maternity leave. When she was given the response that she was not missed, she retorted, “That’s so nasty.”
“Joy, you missed me so much when I was on maternity leave,” Meghan McCain said on The View. “You missed me so much. You missed fighting with me.”
After she was told this, the former co-host of The View went to her trailer. She called her brother for advice, who helped her make the decision to leave.
Meghan McCain details The View departure
During her tenure on the talk show from 2008 to 2021, she has spoken out about its toxicity. On the Thursday (August 4) podcast, she went further about how terrible she felt while co-hosting The View. She called its environment “egregious” and “toxic.” She said while on the show, it “was the most miserable” she had “ever been.”
In recent news for The View, it named CNN political commentator and ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin as the new co-host of the talk show, filling the empty conservative seat. The confirmation came about a week after it was leaked that Griffin would come onboard for the show. She joins Whoopi Goldberg, Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and Ana Navarro, who also joins Griffin as a new host.