Whoopi Goldberg lashes out at Ana Navarro for saying Pleasure Behar was ‘fired’ from ‘The View’

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at her colleague Ana Navarro for saying Pleasure Behar was beforehand “fired” from the daytime discuss present, one thing Behar herself has been candid about. 

On Monday’s broadcast, the women of “The View” paid tribute to the present’s co-creator Invoice Geddie, who died on Thursday at age 68. 

Navarro shared how Behar, who was absent from the printed, had deeply admired the late government producer regardless of their previous tensions, saying “Invoice employed Pleasure and fired Pleasure, but she nonetheless loves him.”

That didn’t sit properly with Goldberg.

“He didn’t- he didn’t hearth Pleasure,” Goldberg mentioned whereas pointing at Navarro. “No, he didn’t.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin tried to clean over the tense alternate, saying Geddie was prepping “the subsequent iteration” of the long-running ABC program. 

Besides Behar has repeatedly acknowledged she had been fired from the present following her 2013 exit. 

Throughout a 2018 look on “Good Morning America,” Behar mentioned on the time she was “fired” for 2 of the 22 seasons of “The View.”

“But it surely provides hope to individuals. , you may be fired from a present, and so they rent you again on the identical present. They know that they made a mistake!” Behar instructed her ABC colleague Robin Roberts.

In 2019, Behar acknowledged she was “summarily dismissed.”

In a July 2022 interview with Time journal, Behar mentioned “I used to be glad to be fired, including “I principally was sick of the present at that time for some cause, I don’t even bear in mind why.”

She reiterated that sentiment whereas discussing her ouster from “The View” on “The View” in February 2023.

“I at all times have associates the place I work, and if I don’t have associates on the job, I can’t hold the job,” Behar instructed her colleagues. “So, once I was fired final time from this present, individuals say to me, ‘Have been you okay with that?’ and my reply is I used to be joyful as a result of all my associates had left already. So, there was no cause to remain anymore. I imply it.”

Whilst lately as Could 2023, Behar spoke about her involuntary departure from “The View.”

“I’ve been on this present for 26 years, proper, with a small hiatus as everyone knows — pressured,” Behar joked with the viewers. 

Whereas Behar’s previous feedback contradict Goldberg’s fast protection of her, it was reported on the time that Behar had exited “The View” of her personal volition. 

Behar first joined the present at its launch in 1997 and was proven the door in 2013. She later returned to “The View” in 2015.