Joy Behar kept diary of Rosie O’Donnell’s ‘The View’ stint: Andy Cohen wants tell-all

Joy Behar is sitting on a lot of dirt about “The View.”  

Behar, 81, revealed on Wednesday’s episode of “Behind the Table” podcast that she kept a diary and took notes on Rosie O’Donnell’s controversial tenure as her “The View” co-host.

O’Donnell, 61, appeared on the show from 2006 to 2007 and has spoken unfavorably about her time on the ABC set.  

“I know this — it’s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness,” O’Donnell said, during an April appearance on Brooke Shields’ podcast, “Now What? With Brooke Shields.”

“It was not something I’d ever do again.” 

At that time, she famously had several tiffs with her fellow co-stars, including a 2007 argument with conservative commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 46. 

Their dust-up began when they got into a 10-minute shouting match about the Iraq war.  

“One day on the show, she kind of threw me under the bus and I was like, ‘Are you f – – king kidding me?’ I finished the show, got my coat, walked out, and said, ‘I’m not going back’ — and I didn’t until a few years later when they asked me to come back. And Whoopi [Goldberg] was on it and we clashed in ways that I was shocked by,” O’Donnell said. 

Behar started on “The View” when it launched in 1997 and stayed for a 16-year run until she exited in 2013. After a two-year absence, she returned to the gabfest in 2015, where she’s been ever since.

“The one year that Rosie O’Donnell was on the show, I kept a diary,” Behar revealed on Wednesday.

Producer Brian Teta told her that “people would go crazy” if she ever released it as a tell-all.

“I know they would,” she said.

“But I don’t like to do that. I don’t talk about ‘The View’ much,” she added. “Andy Cohen is on his knees begging me to do a book.”