“I Was Not Rewarded for Being Me”

Ex-Fox Information anchor Abby Huntsman is elaborating on her determination to depart The View. She co-hosted the ABC discuss present from 2018 to January 2020, when she left to assist her father, Jon Huntsman Jr., together with his Utah gubernatorial marketing campaign. Within the first episode of her new podcast I Wish Somebody Told Me, Huntsman not too long ago revealed that the gig was also a “great out,” since The View didn’t in the end replicate her values and he or she wanted to “save” her psychological well being.

Throughout an look on the newest episode of the present’s official podcast, The View: Behind the Table, the media character sat down with present co-host Sara Haines to dive deeper into her points with the collection. In response to Huntsman, she typically felt stress to be controversial because the present’s sole conservative voice.

“Every little thing was a soundbite and all the pieces was, ‘Who may say essentially the most bombastic factor within the second?’ and that’s not me,” Hunstman stated. “It’s worthwhile to make waves and headlines, and the one means to try this is to be extra bombastic, to say issues that had been on the market and typically a bit loopy.”

She added that whereas she initially agreed to affix The View as a result of producers assured her she wouldn’t “converse for a political social gathering,” she quickly felt that they anticipated her to “slot in that field.”

“I did really feel trapped typically, as a result of I felt like simply to be me wasn’t what the executives on the time at all times needed,” Huntsman continued. “I used to be not rewarded for being me… That was tough as a result of I went into information to be genuine, to be myself and to be truthful about all that and to provide the viewers what I really felt about issues. In order that was a troublesome factor to comprehend.”

Huntsman then informed Haines that she would’ve possible felt extra snug showing on early iterations of the present, earlier than politics and Donald Trump’s presidency had been closely mentioned. “I really assume I might have been excellent on The View in 1998,” she stated. “I might have slot in as a result of you understand what, at that time, the present was extra concerning the girls and their lives and why they had been completely different.”

After the primary episode of I Want Any individual Advised Me was launched, a spokesperson for The View issued a press release in response to her feedback. “Twenty-two unimaginable girls have had a seat on the panel and have labored in collaboration with the devoted group of pros on our employees,” the spokesperson stated. “Abby will at all times stay part of The View household and we stay up for persevering with the dialog along with her when she visits subsequent month.”

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