In 2020, Meghan said on “Watch What Happens Live” that if she ever resigned from “The View,” she wouldn’t be bitter about her experience there. She even praised Whoopi Goldberg and her other co-hosts. “Whoopi is the anchor of the show and my life there, and she always picks us up if we’re down,” she said. But after leaving in 2021, she sang a different tune. While promoting her book “Bad Republican,” she publicly called out “The View” for being a toxic workplace and claimed she was mistreated by her co-hosts.
In an interview with Variety McCain broke down in tears discussing her fallouts with Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. She described having anxiety attacks after arguments on air that she called “humiliating.” “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,” she said through tears. “I wish things could have been different.”
McCain also revealed that she cried hysterically in her dressing room after Joy Behar told her on-air that she didn’t miss her after she returned from maternity leave. “I was just so confused, because women when they have babies should be treated respectfully when they come back to work,” she said. Sources at “The View” told TMZ that McCain leaving the show wasn’t her own choice, she was allegedly forced out after an internal investigation found her to be the real source of the toxic behavior on set.