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No one at this table has been mean to you,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said. Behar replied: “Not now. I’m here 28 years!”

Joy Behar’s notoriously interruptive cell phone and her apartment building’s elevator that once tried to kidnap her aren’t the only mean-spirited presences in The View cohost’s life

Across nearly three decades, Behar — also a stand-up comedian and playwright — has endured a revolving door of cohosts, including many she’s sparred with on the air (looking at you, Meghan McCain). On Friday’s live show, the 82-year-old reflected on many of such panelists who’ve been “mean” to her at the Hot Topics table, even if she wasn’t always able to see it in the moment.

I don’t see a toxic [relationship], I can’t see it. I’m an only child. I was treated well as a child. I think everybody likes me,” Behar said during a chat about The White Lotus season 3’s depiction of a toxic group of friends (Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan).

Behar said she initially wants to “trust” people around her, though she pointed to one of her friends who had a “lousy upbringing” with mean parents, but who’s able to “spot people who are mean” to her because of such a dynamic.

“And I can’t. I’m like Shirley Temple,” Behar added, turning to her cohosts. “Tell them, I don’t remember who’s mean to me — even at this table!”

Conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin — with whom Behar has sometimes clashed with on the air in the past — observed that “no one at this table has been mean to you,” prompting a quick reply from Behar.

Not now,” Behar responded, before pointing out that she’s been “here 28 years,” and has experienced many more cohosts in the past. “That’s true,” Griffin said in response. “Actually, many people at this table!”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for The View for comment.

Though Behar didn’t name names, former View cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck recently publicly criticized her ex-colleague following Behar’s observations about Carrie Underwood’s decision to perform at Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration in January.

That @TheView @JoyVBehar needs to simmer down off my friend,” Hasselbeck wrote in January on X, later posting a message speculating where she would eventually publicize her expanded thoughts on Behar “calling Carrie Underwood Un-American.” However, Behar did not use the phrase “un-American” to describe Underwood in her comments about the singer.

Behar first joined The View alongside Barbara Walters for its inaugural season in 1997, and has remained on the panel ever since, outside of a two-season absence between 2013 and 2015.