Joy Behar Tells ‘The View’ Audience To “Shut Up” After They Applaud Her Ectopic Pregnancy

Joy Behar was not messing around when she told the studio audience attending this morning’s taping of The View to “shut up” after they applauded her experience with an ectopic pregnancy.

The 2024 election conversations continued at the top of the episode, with Whoopi Goldberg explaining why she was “not worried” about Donald Trump getting re-elected as President of the United States.

“I am not worried because I do believe women, in particular, don’t want somebody who says — and he only had to say it once — ‘I am going to decide what a woman’s pregnancy is going to be,'” Goldberg said. “That is what he said. I don’t think women want to hear that.”

Sara Haines piggybacked off Goldberg, reminding viewers that it’s not only abortion rights that are at stake.

“The bills they are trying to pass — if it were President Trump — is life at conception,” she said. “So I just want to remind, in a country where we’re seeing a lot of fertility issues, those go off the table. Because the ‘at fertilization’ will eliminate IVF in this country.”

Haines added that people should “worry about planning your family,” prompting the audience to clap.

(Editor’s Note: The View is on hiatus today; contrary to what you may have heard, The View was not canceled today. This article was originally published on May 1, 2024 when this episode first aired. The View will return with new episodes tomorrow.)

Before the room died down, Behar opened up about having an ectopic pregnancy, which is when a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus. The condition can be deadly if not caught early enough.

“I had an ectopic pregnancy once and if the laws were in place then, I would probably not be sitting here,” she said, before turning to the audience and joking, “For those of you applauding that, shut up.”

The comedian previously detailed the medical emergency during a May 2023 episode of The View, where she recalled being in “excruciating” pain before discovering that she was suffering an ectopic pregnancy.

“[The doctor] gives me painkillers. It disguises the pain and disguises what it was,” she said at the time. “And then I am at death’s door … In excruciating pain. I’m about to die, actually, because it was an ectopic pregnancy.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.