Meghan McCain On Whoopi Goldberg Not ‘Respecting Her’ & What Joy Behar Said That Made Her Leave ‘The View’

Meghan McCain opened up about her time on “The View” in her new memoir, “Bad Republican,” and boy did she have a lot to say – especially about Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar.

In the book, Meghan called out “The View” for its toxic work environment.

I feel like everybody knows that. You can watch the show and see that it’s unhinged and disorganized and rowdy. For me personally, it felt extremely isolating because of my political ideology. I was the only conservative on the show. The third year, they ended up hiring a producer for me who was also conservative.

I need to put the context in. I was working on the show as the only conservative during the Trump years. I felt like a lot of people took out their anger on the administration on me because I was the only person in the building who was a Republican. I felt like I was too many degrees of separation close to Trump, despite the fact that everyone who worked on the show saw firsthand how much President Trump and his family put me through emotionally.

I feel like I have post-traumatic stress from having to feud with the president when my dad was dying, and then having to feud with the president after he died. And I haven’t fully healed.

Meghan McCain also talks about her relationship with Whoopi Goldberg and how it went from being “warm and friendly” to her feeling like she no longer wanted Meghan at the table.

I have a lot of love and affection for her. She was surprised when I left. She yields an unfathomable amount of power in television, in culture. And it felt at a certain point, she didn’t want me at the table anymore. It started with the “Girl, please stop talking!” incident. I remember when it happened almost crying on the show. I never wanted to upset her.

But I also wanted to be truthful about how I felt about politics and my perspective, and sometimes those two things couldn’t co-exist. At a certain point, I made the decision it was more important to be honest than to be liked.

It was horrible. To her credit, Whoopi apologized the next morning. I would apologize when I messed up. I fucked up a lot on that show. [She starts to cry.] I don’t know why I’m getting emotional talking about this. A lot of this feels like such a waste. It was humiliating for me, and I’m a serious person. I felt like I was being talked to like I was a child and a brat. And when things go viral on Twitter and people write things, it really does impact you. I felt very lonely.

I love Whoopi. I felt at a certain point she stopped respecting me, and it was hard. I don’t know why I’m crying so much. I wish things could have been different. I know she had her own dark times. When I was on the show, she almost died of pneumonia. I wish we had better leadership that could have stopped a lot of it.

Meghan goes on to share it was what Joy Behar said to her, days after she returned from maternity leave, that made her leave “The View.”

I didn’t know I was going to leave until my second day back from maternity leave when Joy told me that ‘Nobody missed me — zero.’

That was the day I decided.

Were you sad to see Meghan McCain leave “The View?”