-Kathy shares her experiences on The View – her relationship with Barbara Walters, the Rosie/Elisabeth Hasselbeck feud and more!
-Starting off, she makes it known that she is not bashing the show “I really respect those women for going on that show day in and day out because they know there’s blowback, and by the way, to this day, The View is one of the most buzzworthy shows on television or anywhere. People still get up in arms online talking about who said what on The View, so it’s always been a high-stakes show.”
-After guest hosting a whopping 27 times, she was tired of always being a bridesmaid and wanted a final word on if they wanted her full-time or not “Eventually I said to my agent, ‘Okay, tell them if they’re going to offer me a permanent chair, please tell them to just offer me the chair or not, so they made me an offer and the offer was for 1.4 [million dollars] and I am just going to be honest, I had to turn it down because at the time between doing [the reality show] My Life on the D-List and touring I was making about 10 [million dollars] a year.”
-She eventually turned down the deal stating “I had to turn down The View because I would have had to uproot my whole life. I remember when they offered me the job, Barbara Walters said backstage one time before we were about to go out and do the live show, ‘they say we have chemistry, I don’t really see it but they say we do.’ And I loved that. I said, ‘Of course we do Barbara, people love when I give you s—.’ And then she just rolled her eyes.” she didnt want Bwabwa to feel that she was better than the show “I want you to know why I’m going to say no. It’s not that I think I’m too good for this show, it’s the opposite: this show is too good for me.”
-I’m going to be honest, this is how much money I made last year. I will show you my tax returns. I don’t want you to think I’m blowing smoke but between moving costs and I’m so entwined with my mom and dad. I have a house in Los Angeles, and it just isn’t feasible for me to do, but I want you to hear it directly from me.”
“She did not like that one bit,” she recalled. “She didn’t care. They didn’t up their offer by a penny, I think I might have said something like, ‘Can you meet me halfway? And they didn’t.’ But there’s the real story,”
