Meghan McCain Quits 'The View' Because of Joy Behar's 'Insensitive Comment' [Details]
Meghan McCain reveals the reason why she decided to leave "The View."
In an interview with a podcast magazine, the former "The View" co-host speaks up how she felt with the "insensitive" comment she received after coming back from maternity leave in January 2021.
McCain recalls the event when Joy Behar says that "nobody missed her" which made her cry a lot.
"I finally went back to the show, and the day I went back to the show, Joy Behar said on air, we didn't miss you, you shouldn't have come back."
Back in 2020, McCain gave birth to her daughter, Liberty Sage McCain Domenech with husband Ben Domenech.
It was in May when she announced her pregnancy after suffering miscarriage in 2019.
So the "comment" in which Behar utters triggers her and makes her realize that the job was "not" worth it.
McCain also shares her pain about the incident saying that she did not feel supported when she had her baby and she did not also feel supported coming back after pregnancy that made her decide to leave the talk show.
She also said that if in 15 years or when the time comes that her daughter asks her to be involved in the show where she belongs before, McCain says that it would never happen because she'd rather "lie in front of a train track before I let her go to that show."
Meanwhile, "The View" finally found McCain's replacement after leaving last year. In a recent report, The ABC finally announced the newest member of the daytime talk show and she is Alyssa Farah Griffin. She is the former White House director of strategic communications and assistant to former president Donald Trump.
She will appear alongside Sunny Hostin, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, and moderator Joy Behar.
Former "The View" co-host McCain has been "vocal" about the "toxic" environment she had on the show especially when Behar and Whoopi Goldberg are involved following her exit.
She explains that Whoopi has such influence in pop culture and on television that when she picks on someone at the table, it may lead to incomprehensible tension.
"I found her open disdain for me more and more difficult to manage as the years went on and it became more frequent. Occasionally, if the show's political discourse veered into territory that she found disagreeable, Whoopi would cut me off, sometimes harshly."
