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“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.

“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.