Alyssa Farah Griffin Says She’s Cried at ‘The View’ at Least 6 Times: ‘Have You Done This Job?’

Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed that her three years as a panelist on The View have been fairly tumultuous.

“I cry at work, but I hide it,” the former Trump administration official, 36, admitted on the Wednesday, July 9, episode of The View.

The View panel was discussing safe spaces in the workplace, with Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin poking fun at Gen Z’s trend of using restrooms for “bathroom camping” or creating an “emotional bunker” to calm down. Goldberg, 69, insisted she never needed a “safe space” at work, while Hostin, 56, expressed skepticism over people crying in professional environments.

“This crying at work thing … I don’t know. I’ve never felt the luxury to be able to cry at work,” Hostin insisted. “I just try to get my work done, be as excellent as I can and go home and chill out. I don’t know.”

Farah Griffin interrupted to admit that she had cried at work multiple times since she was hired as The View’s latest conservative panelist in 2022. (The political analyst previously served as the White House’s Director of Strategic Communications in 2020.)

“I have cried at this job at least half a dozen times. Are you kidding me?” she bluntly told a shocked Hostin. “Have you done this job?”

She shared a classic meme of Bart Simpson and Milhouse entering a cave, underscored with the joke, “This is where I come to cry.” Farah Griffin quipped that the Simpsons meme represented “every little corner of this building” for her.

“This is a very hard job to do and, oftentimes, I have the only opinion that’s different at a table of five people,” she argued, before later clarifying: “I would like to state, for the record, this is a great job! Every time I have cried, [producer Brian Teta] gives great hugs.”

Farah Griffin pointed out that she wasn’t the only View cohost to cry at work, reminding Sara Haines that she shed tears on-air before.

“Gen Z and maybe the generation before are talking about [this issue] because they can call it something,” Haines responded. “For years, and decades and millennia, we have all channeled it into other places. But, [yes], I do cry!”

Goldberg remained skeptical after hearing her cohosts out, insisting, “There is nothing that people should be able to do to you [here] to make you cry! … Let us support you! Because nobody should be crying at this job.”

Farah Griffin is far from the only View cohost who has spoken about the emotional toll of her job. Her predecessor Meghan McCain — who was a conservative commentator on The View from 2017 to 2021 — complained following her departure that the show has “a lot of demons that started in the beginning, and none of those demons have been exorcized.”

Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O’Donnell had a legendary falling out live on-air during a heated discussion over the Iraq War in 2007. The former Rosie O’Donnell Show host was upset with her coworker for not defending her against media pundits equating O’Donnell’s anti-war stance with comparing the U.S. troops to terrorists.

“Every day since September, I have told you that I support the troops,” O’Donnell told Hasselbeck live on-air. “I asked you if you believed what the Republican pundits were saying. You said nothing, and that’s cowardly.”

O’Donnell requested to be released from her View contract following the argument, though she would return for another controversial stint on the ABC show in 2014.

During a 2018 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, former View star Jenny McCarthy said she was pressured to “act Republican” during her time on the show. (McCarthy quit The View in May 2014 after less than a year at the table.)

“They initially had me come on there to be the ‘pop culture girl,’ but then [View cocreator and original panelist] Barbara [Walters] didn’t know who anyone was pop culture wise,” she revealed. “Then, they came in my dressing room and said, ‘Can you just act Republican so we have another point of view?’ I said, ‘How do I act Republican?’”

The View airs on ABC Mondays through Fridays.