Why Jenny McCarthy And Barbara Walters Didn't Get Along On The View

Jenny McCarthy's run on "The View," which lasted from 2013 to 2014, was filled with angst, according to the actor. In the 2019 book "Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View," McCarthy revealed that she was "miserable" every day. "I couldn't be myself," McCarthy recalled (via Entertainment Tonight). "Every day I went home and I was miserable. It really was the most miserable I've been on a job in my twenty-five years of show business."

McCarthy went on to claim that Barbara Walters, who was gearing up for retirement, often ridiculed her for seemingly no reason. The television personality recalled an supposed incident where Walters discovered a used tampon in the bathroom toilet and blamed McCarthy for the mishap. "She's standing in the hallway where the guests are, yelling at me about a tampon... Maybe in her brain, she went, 'I'm going to the youngest, newest person here, because obviously she has her period and left a tampon floating,'" McCarthy recalled. McCarthy also claimed that Walters would force her to change clothes before taping, and often criticized her commentary during commercial breaks.

McCarthy doubled down on her claims and further slammed the ABC talk show during an episode of "The Jenny McCarthy Show" on SiriusXM. The former model called the show "terribly unprofessional" for a mass firing that also included co-host Sherri Shepherd and co-creator and former executive producer Bill Geddie.

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