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17. Barbara Walters -

As co-creator of the show, there's no way Walters would scorn the people she was leaving behind. 

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17. Barbara Walters - On her last appearance she said, "This is my legacy," then gestured to the hosts and added, "These are my legacy." No pressure!

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16. Meredith Vieira - Vieira also had only good things to say about the show, which she was leaving for 'Today' as Katie Couric's successor. 

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16. Meredith Vieira - When she broke the news on the show she said, "I could not possibly be in this position today if it had not been for all of you."

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15. Rosie Perez - Perez left the show after just one season to reportedly focus on her acting. 

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15. Rosie Perez - She told The Hollywood Reporter that her thoughts when she was announcing her departure were only positive and grateful. If she was leaving for another reason, she never let on!

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14. Paula Faris - Faris announced she was leaving not one, but two shows—'The View' and 'Good Morning America'—in favor of new assignments.

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14. Paula Faris - The most ill will it seemed she harbored was for the 3 am wake-up calls at 'Good Morning America.'

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13. Sara Haines - Haines recently announced she will be leaving the show to co-host 'Good Morning America,' apparently not bothered by those 3 am call times. 

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13. Sara Haines -

She told People she's grateful to have had “the opportunity to work with some of the most brilliant minds on camera and off camera.”

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12. Candace Cameron Bure - Now things are getting saucier. Bure left the show abruptly in 2016, announcing the decision on-air and departing the following day, stirring up suspicion over her alleged reasons for leaving.

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12. Candace Cameron Bure - She claimed she enjoyed the experience and just wants to spend more time in Los Angeles with her family and pursuing more full-time jobs there. She wouldn't be the first to feel constrained by the show!

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11. Lisa Ling - Ling told Larry King in 2002, that she loved the show but she was still very young and wanted to be in the field, explaining, "I was kind of constrained to be in a studio five days a week."

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11. Lisa Ling - She also mentioned that it was difficult for her to get a word in edgewise.

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10. Elisabeth Hasselbeck - Sure, it might have seemed like Hasselback left the show amicably (even after her on-air fight with cohost Rosie O'Donnell), but her later comments betrayed her feelings.

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10. Elisabeth Hasselbeck - There was a detectable bitterness when she told Rachael Ray in 2015: "I’ve done my time. I did my time, I was outta there."

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9. Sherri Shepherd - Apparently Shepherd would have liked to continue on the show, but something stirred behind the scenes. 

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9. Sherri Shepherd -

Deadline reported that Shepherd and ABC couldn't reach a common ground in contract negotiations, eventually ending any chance of a contract renewal.

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8. Jenny McCarthy - McCarthy left the show at the same time as Shepherd, explaining to Howard Stern that she wasn't comfortable with the pace of the show and that she found it hard to have a voice.

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8. Jenny McCarthy - It was also, however, in solidarity with Shepherd. McCarthy tweeted, "If Sherri goes… I go, too."

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7. Raven-Symoné - The official story is that she left to work on her Disney reboot of 'That's So Raven,' but the nearly 140,000 people who signed a petition to get her fired think otherwise. 

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7. Raven-Symoné - Raven-Symoné had a long streak of less than favorable opinions, including blaming a high school girl who was attacked by a police officer and announcing that she wouldn't hire someone with a "ghetto name."

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6. Michelle Collins - Collins was fired from the show for reportedly derailing the Hot Topics segment one too many times by choosing to talk about personal anecdotes instead of politics.

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6. Michelle Collins - And she wasn't that great when she was on track either—criticizing nurses and mocking a presidential candidate's face aren't exactly ideal comments on a show like 'The View.'

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5. Nicolle Wallace - Wallace was also fired from the show, but in her case it was reportedly because she didn't argue enough with her cohosts.

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5. Nicolle Wallace - Wallace's departure is extra bitter because she wasn't given the opportunity to improve on the show. “I had never had one note from anybody inside the entire organization during the entire season,” she said, “No one said a word to me.”

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4. Jedediah Bila - Behind the smiles of Bila's announcement of departure, there lurked a deep bitterness and anger. Firstly, it's was revealed that ABC thought Bila was not Republican enough.

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4. Jedediah Bila - It was all too sudden, too, as Bila's announcement of departure was also her last episode. It turns out she was blindsided by the news herself, as well as the fact that the more conservative Meghan McCain was set to replace her.

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3. Debbie Matenopoulos - Matenopoulos was the first to leave the show, and it was so bad that she played with the idea of selling a tell-all reveal about her time on 'The View.'

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3. Debbie Matenopoulos - She told the New York Daily News that she wasn't treated properly, adding, “Those people who were tremendously cruel to me know who they are … They don’t like me. They really don’t like me.”

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2. Rosie O’Donnell - After a vicious and uncomfortable on-air fight about the Iraq War with Hasselbeck in 2007, O'Donnell told Variety that she got her stuff and walked out. 

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2. Rosie O’Donnell -

To really drive the message home, she called her manager and said “I’m never going back. You have to call and tell them. Call the lawyer. No matter what they say, I will not go back.”

She returned for another season in 2014.

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1. Star Jones - Jones was so shaken up by her contract not being renewed that she revealed the news publicly before even going on-air, announcing it two days before the date she and the show had agreed upon.

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1. Star Jones - Walters said she felt betrayed by Jones's reveal (there goes that letter of reference) and added with some confusion that she would’ve backed any other story that Jones wanted to put forward about her departure. For that reason alone, Jones takes the cake for the show's most bitter, and poorly executed, exit.

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