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Abby Huntsman left The View in Jan. 2020 — and the former talk show host got candid about what it was really like working there. Describing the environment as “toxic”, “unhealthy” and obsessed with “money and tabloids” in her new podcast show I Wish Somebody Told Me with friend Lauren Leeds.

Television journalist Abby Huntsman is opening up about the 'unhealthy' environment behind the scenes at The View which ultimately forced her to quit the show in 2020, in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV.The 35-year-old former host got emotional recalling how executives at the show 'rewarded' staffers for behavior 'that should never have happened in a work environment' and made her 'feel threatened at times if I didn't do what they wanted.'Abby took a short hiatus from the limelight to help her father Jon Huntsman Jr. with his gubernatorial campaign and she's now back with a new Dear Media podcast,I Wish Somebody Told Me,alongside friend and colleague Lauren Leeds.

When Abby Huntsman, who was one of The View‘s conservative co-hosts along with Meghan McCain during her relatively brief 2018-20 tenure, announced her departure from the oftentimes controversial ABC daytime talk show, the former Fox News personality said it was because she wanted to join and assist the Utah gubernatorial race of her father Jon Huntsman.