Meghan McCain says none apart from Rosie O’Donnell as soon as “warned” her that the “The View” was a “cesspool,” the previous co-host just lately shared throughout a wide-ranging dialogue about privilege, nepotism and politics on the “Your Welcome” podcast.
“I always got along with her,” mentioned McCain throughout Wednesday’s episode. “She was actually the first person that warned me that ‘The View’ is a cesspool. She’s another one that, she’s worth a bajillion dollars and she has a ton of Emmys, but I think people relate to her.”
McCain joined the “View” in 2017. Whereas her tenure by no means overlapped with O’Donnell’s, who was on the present within the mid-2000s, the 2 apparently spoke throughout intermission at a 2018 Broadway efficiency of Disney’s “Frozen,” a supply informed Entertainment Weekly on Thursday. HuffPost has reached out to representatives of O’Donnell for remark.
O’Donnell introduced earlier this month that she and her household have moved to Eire, citing “what’s happening politically” within the U.S., doubtless referring to President Donald Trump and his tumultuous and polarizing administration.
McCain argued Wednesday that O’Donnell is nonetheless nonetheless appreciated again house, stating, “She’s just been through a lot and is open, and I think if you’re raw and open, people will respond to it.”
The daughter of late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Cindy McCain, whose household owns one in all the biggest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors within the U.S., additionally argued that “there’s nothing less cool” within the present local weather “than having a privileged background,” nonetheless.
“Having a last name is actually a detriment now,” she claimed, including: “It’s something I’ve been told by political strategists, people don’t like it. People think you’ve been handed everything. I’m not ashamed, but I certainly am … very aware of the tone in the country right now.”
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O’Donnell, who famously feuded with Trump when he was nonetheless a tv character, has equally unfavourable recollections of “The View” — and informed Brooke Shields on the “Now What?” podcast final 12 months that internet hosting the present is “not something I’d ever do again.”
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O’Donnell cited her blowouts with conservative former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck as one of many predominant causes. McCain, who exited “The View” in 2021, shared on her podcast final 12 months that she “cannot live my life on camera like this anymore.”
The next month, she slammed her former co-hosts as “crazy old people.”
