Meghan McCain, of “related to John McCain” fame, says that the one thing she ever did besides be related to her dad was horrible.

Sure, she’s had a few roles in the public eye besides “professional daughter of a war hero,” including columnist, commentator, and now podcaster, but she says that the time she spent filming ABC’s The View — the daytime talk show created by Barbara Walters back in 1997 with a cast of mostly liberal women and one conservative one on a rotating basis — was “the most miserable I was in my entire life.”

McCain left the show in 2021, which leads you to ask, why is she still talking about it? Well, the answer there is simple: She’s only famous for two things, and one of them is pretty morbid to bring up for the sake of relevance.

On her new podcast Meghan McCain Has Entered The Chat, she was hosting CNN’s Brian Stelter and ended up wandering into her old habit of talking about the show that both made her millions and miserable.

“For me, being on The View and being around so many people who’ve been on TV daily, for decades, I was like, I cannot live my life on camera like this anymore, because it’s bad for me. It’s bad for me emotionally. I just felt like I could not be the kind of mother, wife, and commentator I wanted to be in that kind of a chaotic environment. I didn’t want to be the type of person that couldn’t live without being on TV every day — and I, too, questioned, when I left, if I could live without it, and then I was just so happy that I didn’t have to wear makeup every day.

Working on The View is a big job, people watch it, but for me, it was like in The Devil Wears Prada where it’s like, ‘a million girls want this job.’ What I thought I wanted was the most miserable I was in my entire life.”

It often seemed her View co-hosts were miserable as well. Whoopi Goldberg told a reporter at a film festival, “Nobody wants to be that tired every day. We’ve always had disagreements and stuff, but this one was a little bit different. I think it’s better [now that she’s gone]. I feel it’s better, but I’m still tired!”

Whoopi has often been the most patient of the bunch, so we can only imagine what it was like for the other ladies.

In the end, what matters is that it was just awful for poor Meghan, and she wants to tell you all about it.

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