Star Jones Tells Joy Behar Last Year On 'The View' Was 'Miserable' (VIDEO)

Star Jones and Joy Behar reunited for the first time since Jones' stormy exit from "The View" in 2006.

Jones left the show amidst a flurry of rumors (which she later confirmed) that she had gotten gastric bypass surgery. In her 2008 memoir, Barbara Walters said Jones forced all of her co-hosts to lie about her surgery. Jones fired back, slamming Walters as an "adulterer" in the "sunset of her life." She then wrote a book, "Satan's Sisters," about the women of a daytime talk show. That book is now published, and she appeared on Behar's HLN show to promote it.

It was the first time the two had even spoken since Jones left "The View." Jones said she missed "the discussion" on the show, and called the first eight years of the experience good ones, though she said the last one was "miserable." She disputed Behar's claim that she left the show "angry-ish," saying instead that she left "dramatically." Jones also said that the fallout from the show was devastating.

"The network was leaking out little stuff to the media and paparazzi was at my house, and ringing my doorbell and contacting my neighbors," she said. "And it was really probably the most emotionally destroying time of my life."

Jones then called Behar out for not contacting her when she had open heart surgery.

"You didn't call, you didn't write," she said. "They cracked my chest. You didn't send a flower." Behar insisted that this was the first she was hearing about this. "I didn't know that until today," she said. "I swear to you." But she also admitted that she has "a tendency to block out illnesses when people tell me."

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[Happy Boy]

10:53 AM on 05/30/2011

Star who?

How can she be called Star but other than by her given name?

A total waist of time. Self absorbed, self-pitying, pseudo lawyer, pseudo intelligent, self proclaim world's best event planner. That's a nice career shift from lawyer to event planner pining for upper class status.

[bogey1]

08:10 PM on 04/25/2011

the only question is which one is more annoying
behar or jones

[RanSays]

10:59 AM on 04/10/2011

So funny of Behar to act as if she wasn't on the View when Star was.

Joy is totally repulsive.

[Marioam]

02:04 PM on 04/09/2011

Star Jones proved herself to be a spoiled, petty child.

[beerbagger]

03:12 PM on 04/08/2011

The real Star that pops up here and on Celebrity Apprentice is a extremely mean, self-serving, shallow and disgusting human.

[proudtohaveserved]

09:58 AM on 04/09/2011

she is a rethog, isn't she?

[ReadMyLipstick1]

01:43 PM on 04/08/2011

I think Starr Jones has to work too hard at being whatever it is she is trying to be.

[Lost Nation]

12:44 AM on 04/07/2011

It's great to see the left hammer on Star.....

Star just displayed the liberal mind for all to see

[Morena]

02:14 AM on 04/07/2011

hat one fell way short. Try again!

[proudtohaveserved]

10:00 AM on 04/09/2011

she is not a liberal. she believes the earth is 5000 years old

[Beeznitchio]

12:08 AM on 04/07/2011

I never was a big fan of Star Jones. However, I feel that she is intelligent and a much better representative of women, African Americans, and humans in general than that lady that replaced her with, who wasn't sure if the Earth was round.

[Morena]

02:20 AM on 04/07/2011

She was once a pretty darn good attorney. Her ego became unmanageable that was her downfall, I think it was stemmed from insecurity.

[Cali4BHO]

10:00 PM on 04/06/2011

Bitter Bitter Little Star, how I wonder what u are...

[iMissMollyIvins]

12:15 AM on 04/07/2011

Bravo!

[lionhearted1]

10:11 AM on 04/10/2011

ohhhh yes. I miss Miss Molly. What WOULD she have to say about our "Bidness"? Just applauding your choice of moniker. Keep her laughing wild from deep in the heart of Texas.

[ummm]

09:34 PM on 04/06/2011

8 years? That show became irrelevant at the beginning of the 4th season when its' success made all the women (upgraded) property owners & they allowed themselves to be carried away to a heady non-reality and that "viewpoint"; Behar told Jones that house guests (to her new Hampton's house) had to bring their own linens (because she couldn't be a proper hostess with her new importance)! No thanks. Petty, petty & insecure women.

[Maxx Webber]

08:15 PM on 04/06/2011

They deserve each other .

[emperance]

07:54 PM on 04/06/2011

Never cared for her ego from the minute the show aired.

Babs tried to show the world that she could hire a LESS THAN CAMERA ready woman, by hiring Star. She’s said so, in a roundabout way.

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED.

*********************************

I’m no fan of Babs either.

She only hires less than attractive, overweight, black women & she slept with a black woman’s husband.

Something PATHOLOGICAL is going on with her — IMO.

[Studebaker Hawk]

11:25 PM on 04/06/2011

Wasn't Senator Brooke's wife white?

[emperance]

12:34 AM on 04/07/2011

He's had 2.

Why do we need to know that she slept with a black man & a married one at that.
Do you think his family is proud of that revelation?

[stape45]

12:51 AM on 04/07/2011

A bigoted remark, for sure: Of the ten "View" co-hosts, only three-of-ten were Black, and only four- of-ten, were overweight.

[emperance]

10:38 AM on 04/07/2011

NONE of the black women were thin - OR - attractive.

Overweight, loud, "Big Momma" types & I find that to be STEREOTYPICAL hiring.

[nini516]

06:29 PM on 04/06/2011

Star. Pulease!!! Everyone can see for themselves your true colors. And obviously you have not moved on, and is once again trying to profit from "The View". After all your diva/bridzilla antics, and it's clear on celebrity apprentice as well. Move forward Star, and maybe you can have some success. Stop living in the past.

[bluehand]

05:31 PM on 04/06/2011

HuffPo, I hate when you use misleading captions. There was nothing wrong with that interview. It was pretty much true to their interactions when they were together on the View.

[MikeCanada]

05:19 PM on 04/06/2011

I was never more miserable then when I was watching Star Jones on television.