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Former “View” co-host Abby Huntsman is speaking out about what led to her departure from the long-running ABC daytime program.
On her new podcast “I Wish Somebody Told Me,” Huntsman said calling her tenure on the show “kind of stressful” is the “politically correct way of putting it” and recalled one of the first red flags of the gig was when she was the subject of a tabloid about how ABC had sent her to a “talent coach” a few weeks into being the co-host, when she was led to believe all new co-hosts do the same.
“I knew right at that moment when I saw that article, it came from within,” Huntsman said on Thursday. “So they send me to a talent coach and then they leak it about me…. You stop trusting people around you and then you really feel isolated. You really feel alone.”
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Huntsman, who was a “View” co-host from 2018-2020, shared an anecdote from her mother about a bumper sticker slogan she saw that read, “It takes strength to be gracious during cruel situations,” something Huntsman said, “it reminded me so much about my time on that show, how often I would sit there and I would so badly want to scream.”
“It took the stronger part of me to hold back, the stronger part to try to be gracious,” Huntsman told her podcast co-host Lauren Leeds.
Abby Huntsman announced she won’t be co-hosting “The View” alongside Joy Behar any longer. (Getty Images)
Huntsman suggested that the reason she gave at the time for leaving “The View,” which was to help her father Jon Huntsman’s gubernatorial campaign, wasn’t exactly truthful, calling it a “great out.”
“I knew that the show did not reflect my values. When I say that I mean rewarding people for bad behavior,” Huntsman said. “I’m never going to be someone that writes a tell-all book, that’s just not me, and I’m not going to put names on things but at that time, there were executives in charge that I did feel like we were…
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