Breaking: ABC chose to not renew contracts for “The View” hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar because they were “toxic”

she expressed gratitude over her ousting from the talk-show panel.

“I always have friends where I work, and if I don’t have friends at the job, I will not keep the job,” she explained. “So, when I was fired last time from this show, people say to me, ‘Were you okay with that?’ and my answer is, I was happy, because all my friends had left already. So, there was no reason to stay anymore. I mean it.”

Goldberg, who was a permanent member of The View at the time Behar left, quickly asked, “Really?All your friends left?” as the audience gasped.

The Oscar-winning actress then feigned a quivering lip and pretended to cry. “It’s okay, I’m cool,” she joked.ABC(2) Whoopi Goldberg reacts to Joy Behar saying she was happy to be fired from ‘The View’ in 2013.

“You had just come on, and my backstage friends had left. And I don’t like to work when I don’t have friends,” Behar clarified, with Goldberg later adding that they had “been friends for a long time” and that she was only “teasing” her pal.

Goldberg and Behar had fronted The View together long before Behar’s initial exit in August 2013. The 80-year-old cohost returned to the show in 2015 while leading two solo talk shows on other networks: The Joy Behar Show, which ran from 2009-2011, and Joy Behar: Say Anything! in 2012.