Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed that her three years as a panelist on The View have been pretty tumultuous.
“I cry at work, however I conceal it,” the previous Trump administration official, 36, admitted on the Wednesday, July 9, episode of The View.
The View panel was discussing protected areas within the office, with Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin poking enjoyable at Gen Z’s development of utilizing restrooms for “toilet tenting” or creating an “emotional bunker” to settle down. Goldberg, 69, insisted she by no means wanted a “protected area” at work, whereas Hostin, 56, expressed skepticism over individuals crying in skilled environments.
“This crying at work factor … I don’t know. I’ve by no means felt the luxurious to have the ability to cry at work,” Hostin insisted. “I simply attempt to get my work finished, be as glorious as I can and go dwelling and sit back. I don’t know.”
Farah Griffin interrupted to confess that she had cried at work a number of occasions since she was employed as The View’s newest conservative panelist in 2022. (The political analyst beforehand served because the White Home’s Director of Strategic Communications in 2020.)
“I’ve cried at this job no less than half a dozen occasions. Are you kidding me?” she bluntly instructed a shocked Hostin. “Have you ever finished this job?”
She shared a traditional meme of Bart Simpson and Milhouse getting into a cave, underscored with the joke, “That is the place I come to cry.” Farah Griffin quipped that the Simpsons meme represented “each little nook of this constructing” for her.
“It is a very exhausting job to do and, oftentimes, I’ve the one opinion that’s totally different at a desk of 5 individuals,” she argued, earlier than later clarifying: “I want to state, for the file, this can be a nice job! Each time I’ve cried, [producer Brian Teta] provides nice hugs.”
Joe Biden attends a stay interview on ABC’s ‘The View’ in September 2024. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
Farah Griffin identified that she wasn’t the one View cohost to cry at work, reminding Sara Haines that she shed tears on-air earlier than.
“Gen Z and perhaps the technology earlier than are speaking about [this issue] as a result of they’ll name it one thing,” Haines responded. “For years, and a long time and millennia, we’ve all channeled it into different locations. However, [yes], I do cry!”
Goldberg remained skeptical after listening to her cohosts out, insisting, “There’s nothing that individuals ought to be capable of do to you [here] to make you cry! … Allow us to assist you! As a result of no one ought to be crying at this job.”
Farah Griffin is much from the one View cohost who has spoken in regards to the emotional toll of her job. Her predecessor Meghan McCain — who was a conservative commentator on The View from 2017 to 2021 — complained following her departure that the present has “numerous demons that began at first, and none of these demons have been exorcized.”
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O’Donnell had a legendary falling out stay on-air throughout a heated dialogue over the Iraq Battle in 2007. The previous Rosie O’Donnell Present host was upset together with her coworker for not defending her towards media pundits equating O’Donnell’s anti-war stance with evaluating the U.S. troops to terrorists.
“Day-after-day since September, I’ve instructed you that I assist the troops,” O’Donnell instructed Hasselbeck stay on-air. “I requested you in case you believed what the Republican pundits have been saying. You mentioned nothing, and that’s cowardly.”
O’Donnell requested to be launched from her View contract following the argument, although she would return for one more controversial stint on the ABC present in 2014.
Throughout a 2018 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen, former View star Jenny McCarthy mentioned she was pressured to “act Republican” throughout her time on the present. (McCarthy stop The View in Might 2014 after lower than a 12 months on the desk.)
“They initially had me come on there to be the ‘popular culture woman,’ however then [View cocreator and original panelist] Barbara [Walters] didn’t know who anybody was popular culture sensible,” she revealed. “Then, they got here in my dressing room and mentioned, ‘Are you able to simply act Republican so we’ve one other standpoint?’ I mentioned, ‘How do I act Republican?’”
The View airs on ABC Mondays by Fridays.