Joy Behar On Her 2013 Departure From 'The View' – 'I Was Glad To Be Fired'

Joy Behar recently revealed that she was glad to have been fired from "The View" in 2013.

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"I was glad to be fired. I basically was sick of the show at that point for some reason, I don't even remember why," she said in an interview with the Times.

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Behar continued to make guest appearances after her firing and was rehired for the 19th season in 2015.

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Behar said people did not like that she is "a powerful person on The View."

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However, the comedian feels her "comedy has never been vicious or mean."

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Behar said she annoyed Barbara Walters when she intentionally disclosed that Rosie O'Donnell had been signed on as a panelist in 2006.

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"'You're a loose cannon, and I'm not renewing your contract,'" Behar recalled Walters' reaction during her feature on Hulu's "Behind the Table: A View Reunion,"

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"I've had to apologize, which I'm happy to do in order to save mine and everybody else's job," Behar said in an interview with People.

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Behar will reprise her role on "The View" in the 26th season of the show.

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