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Joy Behar has revealed the injury that led to her four-day absence from The View — and it was admittedly “very, very, very painful.”
The panelist, who returned to her co-hosting duties on Friday, Nov. 14, shared with viewers that her multiple episodes off-air were the result of her “dropping an iPad” on her foot and breaking a toe.
“Now, I’ve been off for a few days as you might have noticed,” Behar, 83, said at the start of Friday’s broadcast. “Here’s what happened: I dropped my iPad on my foot and I broke my toe.”
Behar then lifted her foot over the table, showing her three middle toes being held together by a bandage. “What they do is they put the toes together, because it’s broken. And it’s very, very, very painful. I do not recommend you dropping anything on your toes.”
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After Behar’s announcement, Ana Navarro brought up how fellow panelist Sunny Hostin tried to talk Behar into purchasing a “bigger iPad” just a few weeks prior to the injury. Behar joked the suggestion was “very sadistic.”
“Manny and I hear that Joy has dropped this iPad on her foot,” Hostin, 57, shared of herself and her orthopedic surgeon husband, Emmanuel. “So I texted Joy, I said, ‘Manny’s having office hours. Would you like him to go to your house to look at your foot. That didn’t happen but Manny said, ‘Have her send me a picture of her foot.’ ”
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After Behar joked that Hostin’s husband should’ve gone on ‘WikiFeet” instead, Hostin revealed Behar told him she “absolutely” did not have any swelling or bruising. That turned out to be incorrect.
“When he got that picture, her third toe looked like her big toe,” Hostin said, as Behar shared she didn’t see the “black-and-blue mark” on her foot because of her home’s “glamour lighting.”
Behar is now back to her regularly scheduled appearances on The View, after missing four consecutive episodes from Monday, Nov. 10 through Thursday, Nov. 13. While Behar doesn’t usually appear on Mondays, co-host Whoopi Goldberg first revealed on Tuesday that Behar was “out” and would “hopefully” be back the following day.
When Wednesday came, Goldberg revealed at the top of the talk show that the comedian “hurt her foot.” The following day, Goldberg again explained Behar’s absence — although Behar sent along a celebratory lasagna in honor of Goldberg’s 70th birthday.
Behar has been a fixture on The View since it premiered in 1997, with the exception of a period between 2013 and 2015. During a January episode of The View’s official Behind the Table podcast, Behar shared that her agent in the ’90s initially advised her not to take the gig.
“When I got this job — when was it? 1997? — I was sort of on the cusp of getting a sitcom. I had been in a sitcom already, and I’d done a pilot,” Behar, who appeared on NBC’s TV adaptation of the 1987 film Baby Boom in the late ’80s, said.
“The call comes for this job to do The View with Barbara Walters. Do you know that my agent told me not to take it,” she added. The agent, Behar added, argued that the show didn’t pay enough, although she “knew that it would be a smart show” with Walters involved.
The View is now on its 29th season. It airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.
