Whoopi Goldberg reacts as Joy Behar says she was 'happy' to be fired from The View : 'All my friends had left'

Whoopi Goldberg had a hilarious reaction to Joy Behar's resurfaced revelation that she was "happy" to be fired from The View in 2013.

As the Hot Topics table discussed the importance of workplace friendships, Behar — one of the original View cohosts who helped Barbara Walters launch the show in 1997 — revisited a 2022 interview with Time magazine in which 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.