Meghan McCain Shares “Juicy Gossip” Of ‘The View,’ Likens Co-Hosts To “Vultures” & Claims They Were “So Scared” Of Tulsi Gabbard
Meghan McCain has developed a strong friendship with Tulsi Gabbard and, while reminiscing, took the opportunity to bash her former The View co-hosts.
McCain joined Gabbard at the Stand with Women event in Philadelphia, where she recalled interviewing Gabbard on the ABC talk show back in 2019.
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“Can I just say the last time we were on a stage together was when you were on The View?” Gabbard told McCain at the event, with McCain adding, “Do you want a little juicy gossip, since it’s just us in there? They were so scared of her.”
The daughter of the late Senator John McCain said that when Gabbard was a guest on the talk show, they had just started to become friends.
“I remember being like, I’m really going to have to do defense for this woman here because they’re going to be so mean to her,” McCain said. “You can look it up, it was like vultures. We really bonded afterward, but you took Joy [Behar] to task so hard that her husband took a picture of me, and I’m literally like [screaming] afterward.”
Gabbard added that during a commercial break, McCain “literally ran over jumping up and down with joy,” for holding strong against Behar’s questioning.
McCain’s latest dig at her former co-stars comes after she threatened legal action after she felt alluded to by Ana Navarro during a discussion of nepotism in politics. Earlier this year, McCain also felt alluded to by Sara Haines when she said, “Someone here” started to villanize Dr. Fauci during the pandemic. McCain commented on social media, saying, “These women will never quit me.”
RELATED: Meghan McCain Says “There’s Not A Chance In Hell” She Would Return To ‘The View’ As Co-Host
Since exiting The View, McCain has not had kind words for the show, calling it a “rigged show” and referring to her former co-stars as “crazy old people.”
The former View co-host joined the show in 2017 and, during her tenure, shared the panel with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Abby Huntsman. McCain quit in 2021 and says she doesn’t maintain a friendship with any of the current hosts.
“I don’t talk to any of the main co-hosts that I was with, but I still do have friends, that work on the show and people that I made relationships with,” she told Page Six. “But I never want to say who because I don’t want them to get bullied for still being my friend. Like, I don’t want them to be publicly or privately bullied. And I actually have.”
In the same interview, McCain said there was “not a chance in hell” she would return to the show, not even as a guest.
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