Joy Behar storms off The View in 2010

Joy Behar has finally broken her silence on the moment she and Whoopi Goldberg shocked ABC viewers after storming out of an explosive interview with conservative media figure Bill O’Reilly. The pair walked off The View set back in 2010 following a heated debate about 9/11.

Bill was on The View when he enraged both Joy and Whoopi after making a scathing comment while discussing a new mosque in New York.

The lower Manhattan construction was to take place just blocks from Ground Zero and O’Reilly had something to say about the proposal.

At the time, Bill said: “Muslims killed us on 9/11.”

His comment didn’t go down well with the presenters who couldn’t believe what he was saying live on-air back in 2010.

Fuming at Bill, Whoopi replied at the time: “Extremists did that.”

An argument ensued as Joy said: “I don’t want to sit here. I don’t want to sit here, I don’t.”

Moments later, Joy stood up to walk off stage as Whoopi did the same and they both stormed off the set, sending shockwaves at the time.

Co-host Barbara Walters couldn’t believe what had happened and famously said: “You have just seen what should not happen.”

She added: “We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands and screaming and walking off stage.

“I love my colleagues, it should not have happened.

“Now, let me just say to you in a calmer voice: it was extremists.

“You can not take a whole religion and demean them because of what some extremists [did].”

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Addressing the ordeal for the first time during Thursday’s episode of The View, Joy revealed her reasoning behind the walk-off.

“I’m never rude to guests,” she said.

“Unless you count the way I treated Bill O’Reilly once when he was on this show. Whoopi and I, we walked off the stage.”

Explaining her reason, Joy quipped: “That was a political move.”

Their co-host Sunny Hostin branded the incident “a teachable moment” and called it “a lesson” in on-set decorum.

Shortly after the incident in 2010, O’Reilly was subsequently terminated from his post at Fox News after harassment claims, something he and his representative denied.

“Not one complaint was filed against him with the Human Resources Department or Legal Department by a coworker, even on the anonymous hotline,” they said at the time.

The View continues weekdays on ABC in the USA

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