Variety's Ramin Setoodeh, whose new book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View was published this week, has released audio of a 2006 argument between Hasselbeck and Walters over the morning-after pill. When the show went to commercial break, Hasselbeck said "F*ck that!" before going backstage, where she was recorded saying: “What the f*ck! I don’t even swear. She has me swearing. This woman is driving me nuts. I’m not going back. I can’t do the show like this. She just reprimanded me, and she knew exactly what she was doing. Good-bye! I’m off. Write about that in the New York F*CKING Post!” Hasselbeck responded to the release of the clip on Friday, saying she “used bad words when frustrated” with the conversation and pointing out she was pregnant at the time.
TOPICS: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, ABC, The View, Barbara Walters, Daytime TV