THE VIEW alum Meghan McCain has revealed the cruel comment Joy Behar said on-air which made her quit the show.
The conservative panelist walked away from the daytime program in July 2021.
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Speaking on The Commentary Magazine Podcast, Meghan, 37, revealed the final straw for her was a comment made by her co-host Joy, 79, live on-air.
It came after Meghan had been away from The View on maternity leave following the birth of her daughter, Liberty.
The Republican author said: “I finally went back to the show, and 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. ‘
“And I just… I started crying hysterically. Sorry gentlemen, I know, I started lactating on air and I started crying.”
Meghan claimed that the show was an unwelcoming environment as she returned back to work.
“I didn’t feel supported when I had my baby and I didn’t feel supported coming back and that was ultimately it. That was why I left!”
Since she quit The View last year, Meghan has been outspoken about her bad experiences both on-air and behind-the-scenes.
She told The Commentary Magazine Podcast: “It was a very egregious toxic work environment.”
Joy’s comments seemed particularly insensitive to Meghan, who is the late John McCain’s daughter, because she had suffered a miscarriage before she became pregnant with Liberty.
A month after the tragedy, Joy had joked on air that the only thing Meghan could breastfeed was “a cactus”.
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Meghan gave birth to Liberty on September 28, 2020.
The now one-year-old is the first child for both Meghan and her husband Ben Domenech, who is also a conservative commentator.
But Meghan has made it clear that she doesn’t want her daughter to follow in her mother’s talk show footsteps.
She shockingly told The Commentary Magazine Podcast: “If she in 15 years came to me and said to me, ‘The View wants to have me host there,’ I would lie in front of a train track before I let her go to that show .”
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Meghan’s role as the conservative voice on The View has now been taken over by Alyssa Farah Griffin.
The 33-year-old political advisor was the strategic communications director for President Donald Trump.
“I do hope that the next people are treated differently,” Meghan said of her replacement.
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