Whoopi Goldberg Shades Meghan McCain: ‘The View’ Is ‘Calmer’ Without Her

Whoopi Goldberg, 66, did not clasp backmost erstwhile talking astir her erstwhile costar, Meghan McCain, 37, during a caller interrogation with Page Six connected Oct. 1. “It’s [The View] calmer due to the fact that cipher wants to beryllium that bushed each day,” Whoopi told the outlet astatine the premiere of her caller film, Till. Her sassy remark comes conscionable implicit a twelvemonth aft Meghan announced her exit from the deed speech amusement aft moving alongside Whoopi for 4 years.

Meghan McCain & Whoopi Goldberg worked unneurotic connected ‘The View’ from 2017 until Meghan’s exit successful 2021. (ABC)

Meghan and Whoopi’s tumultuous relationship is nary secret, arsenic they person gotten into many disagreements portion co-hosting The View unneurotic since Meghan joined successful 2017. And successful Meghan’s memoir Bad Republican, which was released successful April, she revealed that portion moving connected the show, her co-hosts became little friendly. “You can’t ideate however it messes with your self-esteem moving successful an situation wherever the worst happening you tin beryllium successful the satellite is simply a Republican during the Trump years,” she wrote successful an excerpt. “As the state got worse nether Trump, the attraction from Whoopi, Joy [Behar] and immoderate of the unit grew meaner and little forgiving,” the 37-year-old added.

The girl of the precocious Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), besides went into details astir her rough relationship with Joy successful her book. When recalling her instrumentality to the amusement successful Jan. 2021, pursuing her maternity leave, Meghan wrote astir the salty remark Joy made to her. “You missed maine truthful overmuch erstwhile I was connected maternity leave. You missed warring with me,” Meghan said to “ease the tension,” arsenic she wrote successful the excerpt. Joy clapped back: “I did not. I did not miss you. Zero.” After Joy’s comment, Meghan said that she felt she had been “slapped.”

Megan McCain & the formed of ‘The View’ anterior to Meghan’s departure. (ABC)

Meghan archetypal joined the formed of The View successful Oct. 2017, and decided to quit the show aft 4 years. On July 1, 2021, Meghan announced her departure from the amusement during a unrecorded occurrence for the show. “I americium conscionable going to rip the set assistance off,” she said. “I americium present to archer each of you, my fantastic co hosts and viewers astatine home, that this is going to beryllium my past season present astatine The View.” In her book, she besides called the situation astatine enactment “toxic” aft she returned from her maternity leave. “As I was dealing with my ain emotions, I couldn’t besides navigate the thought that I was hated and felt hated astatine a toxic enactment environment,” Meghan penned. The erstwhile Fox News big revealed that during that clip she was besides dealing with postpartum anxiety.

Whoopi decidedly agrees that some of them working together was not a affirmative experience. “We’ve ever had disagreements and stuff, but this 1 was a small spot different,” the Sister Act prima told Page Six. “I deliberation [the show], it’s better. I consciousness it’s better, but I’m inactive tired!” She besides shared that the play took spot successful beforehand of the cameras and not typically backstage. “People felt similar they wanted to spell home,” she said. “There was nary constituent successful fighting. You bash what you bash and you spell location and bash what you emotion to do. And hopefully, everybody is present happier.”