The View has been home to an array of fights and disagreements over the years, but this morning, the ladies of the hit ABC daytime talk show made an admission: backstage, there is also crying! The revelation came when the ladies were discussing a recent Vice study about how Gen Z struggles with high levels of stress and anxiety, so they deal with it by using restrooms as a safe space.
Completely mocking the concept of “bathroom camping,” Whoopi Goldberg asked the ladies if they had their own safe space. “I don’t need a safe space. I’m my own safe space,” the moderator revealed. As the conversation continued, Alyssa Farrah Griffin shared, “I cry at work, but I hide it,” laughing her way through the admission that she’s cried at least half a dozen times. She even related it to The Simpsons meme of Bart and Milhouse in a cave that reads “This is where I come to cry.”
The conservative panelist noted that The View was a “great” job and executive producer Brian Teta gives great hugs whenever she does cry. But before tossing the show to commercial, Whoopi, like the wise sage she is, said, “The thing that shocks me, for me, there is nothing that people should be able to do to you to make you cry. Because let us support you because nobody should be crying at this job.”
‘The View’ Co-Hosts Admit It’s a Hard Job
The lively and jovial conversation started when the ladies at the table came back from commercial, completely engaged in their off-camera conversations. Paul, the stage manager, was trying to give them a “hard out,” but as Joy Behar said, “It’s too hard to talk here when you’re on the air.” As the conversation about bathroom camping continued, Sunny Hostin revealed that she never felt the “luxury” to cry at work.
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Drama? Check. Laughter? Check. Piping hot tea? Check.
Griffin lamented, “This is a very hard job to do, and I oftentimes am of the only opinion that’s different at a table of five people.” Sara Haines noted that it’s not just a Gen Z problem, who was ribbed for crying both on and off-air. “My point is, and I don’t want to skip over is, Gen Z, and maybe the decade before it are talking about it because they can call it something,” she said. “For years and decades and millenia, we’ve all channeled it into other places.” She shared that her place, usually after every breakup, would be on a coffee run. After Whoopi’s stance that this job shouldn’t be a place for crying, perhaps there will be no tears left to cry backstage at The View any longer!
The View airs weekdays on ABC. All episodes are available to stream on Hulu.
