OK! Magazine USA – August 19, 2019

34 AUGUST 19, 2019 OK!

THE VIEW’S

DRAMA

S

itting on the panel from 2013 to

2014, Jenny McCarthy’s stint on

The View was brief — and

“miserable.” “You know the movie

Mommie Dearest? I remember as

a child watching that movie and going,

‘Holy cow!’ I’d never seen a woman yell

like that before until I worked with

Barbara Walters!” Jenny said in the book

Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside

Story of The View, adding that the

veteran journalist, who launched the talk

show in 1997, once screamed at her for

seven minutes for claiming autism could

be cured. “I went back to my dressing

room not knowing what the f**k to do.

One of my heroes just chewed me a new

a**hole, and I’m going on live TV.”

Jenny, 46, also said that there were

times Barbara, 89, would force her to

change her outfit before going on stage,

especially if it didn’t complement her own.

“I always had to put on a sweater,” shared

Jenny. “There were times when she’d say

change, and she’d make people run out

and get that dress in her size!” It

eventually got so bad that the blonde

beauty began avoiding the show’s creator

at all costs. “When I’d hear the shuffle of

her feet, I knew that Barbara was after

me,” Jenny recalled. “Based on the speed

of the shuffle, I would hide or get on the

phone!”

Jenny also had issues with cohost

Whoopi Goldberg, 63. “Whoopi had an

addiction to controlling people’s

thoughts, their words, the room, the

table, your feelings, your mood,” shared

Jenny, calling the Oscar winner’s voice

“strong” in sound and meaning. “I was

able to get a point out in three words —

like ‘I don’t agree’ — and that’s all I would

be able to say. I would be stepped on or

interrupted.” Whoopi, she added, “had an

addiction to controlling all of it.”

Candace vs. Raven

A

bitter bust-up over a wedding cake turned Candace Cameron Bure, 43, and

Raven-Symone, 33, into enemies! In July 2015, the ladies took their seats at

the table to discuss an Oregon bakery’s decision to refuse service to a

lesbian couple. But things went haywire when ultraconservative Christian

Candace disagreed with Raven’s comments that the bakery was being

discriminatory toward the couple’s sexual orientation. “This is about freedom of

association [and] constitutional rights,” the Full House alum shot back, arguing

that the wedding may have gone against the bakery’s religious beliefs. But

Raven — who in 2014 shared that was she was in a relationship with a woman —

wasn’t having it. “I refuse to associate with you right now,” she told Candace,

declining to take the conversation any further.

Jenny vs. Whoopi & barbara