Sherri Shepherd Spills on ‘The View’ Drama: “Joy Doesn’t Know How to Keep Her Damn Mouth Shut”

It’s always a good time to dish on The View. On Sunday night, former host Sherri Shepherd stopped by Watch What Happened Live with Andy Cohen, where she spilled the tea on Ramin Setoodeh’s best-selling book, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View. Shepherd had plenty to say about Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg’s feud, Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s F-bomb filled rant, Barbara Walters’ temper, and more salacious details revealed in the tell-all book. As Shepherd put it, “Y’all white people are something else.”

Shepherd hasn’t hosted The View for five years, but she still has plenty of thoughts about the ABC daytime show. During WWHL‘s “Spill The View Tea” speed round, the actress revealed that she didn’t actually read Setoodeh’s book about the show’s more dramatic moments, as “she lived it” every day from 2007 to 2014. Cohen then launched into the game by asking how Shepherd “reacted to learning that Hasselbeck tried to quit during a commercial break,” a moment that was captured via audio and released in early April. “I was there,” she said. “When Elisabeth was going to walk off, I was like, boy, y’all white people are something else. You gon’ leave a job?”

“Thoughts on Rosie saying Whoopi was mean to her on the show?” asked Cohen. “Whoopi was like an auntie in my head,” replied Shepherd. “She’s hard on you, but when she’s hard on you, she expects a lot.” When asked about Walters “threatening to fire Joy” Behar after she accidentally told reporters that O’Donnell was joining The View in 2006, Shepherd laughed. “Joy doesn’t know how to keep her damn mouth shut!” she said.

Shepherd went on to confirm Jenny McCarthy’s claim that “Barbara always critiqued her outfits,” telling Cohen, “Yeah. I do remember one time, Jenny had an outfit on and Barbara wanted the same outfit. Like, she wanted to wear the same outfit that Jenny had on.” When fellow guest Ashley Darby said that Walters’ outfit envy was “a compliment,” the former host corrected her. “It’s not a compliment when you 19 and it’s 80,” said Shepherd. “I don’t know if that’s a compliment.”

Watch Sherri Shepherd recall her View days in the clip above.

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