Michelle Collins Says She Has “PTSD” from Her First Season on The View

Michelle Collins speaks candidly about her year-long stint as co-host at The view.

“I bit my tongue about a lot of things that happened there, I think that was partly due to mild post-traumatic stress disorder and just the fact that we grew up in a family home where we had the country road have taken. I think it’s ugly,” the comedian, 42, shared on the Wednesday, April 10, episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast.

Collins further noted that it “took her a long time to come to terms with the fact that it was – and still is – the greatest thing I’ve ever really done and that it gave her an opportunity to gain fans .” That’s why she can’t “spit back where I come from.”

However, she expressed frustration that she was never invited back to the show since her exit in 2016. “It bothers me that I played the game right and then I don’t get rewarded one bit,” Collins explained.

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Collins joined the ABC talk show for its 19th season in 2015 alongside other first-time co-hosts Raven Symone And Candace Cameron Bure. The trio joined people like Joy Behar, Paula Faris And Whoopi Goldberg.

Collins was fired from the series a year later after making a series of controversial comments, most notably mocking the Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorinas face. Symoné, 38, and Cameron Bure, 48, left the company at their own request that same year.

Although she hasn’t returned to the show since, Collins revealed that she was asked to take part The view“It was the first time I heard of them,” she said, adding that she filmed an intro clip in front of the Eiffel Tower since she was in Paris at the time.

“The premiere comes out and I swear they put me in it: What is the smallest square of three by three pixels on an HDTV? You couldn’t see it [me]Collins continued. “I wasn’t bitter about it because what are they going to do? Introduce myself? I was on the show for about six months. All right then. But then the whole season I was like, ‘You know what?’ it sucks.” And I’ll just say it: it’s not pretty. It’s like, ‘Listen, I exist,’ and I played the game, but now I guess I don’t have to do it anymore, so that’s exciting.”

Despite her bad blood on the show, Collins said she would be open to a guest appearance The view if asked. “It’s been so long for me, but I think they really want to forget Candace, Raven and me,” she concluded.

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Wednesday’s podcast episode isn’t the first time Collins has criticized the long-running series. she told exclusively Us in February 2020 that the show’s cast felt like a sisterhood at times, explaining, “When they came after me, the bullying was brutal – but I got through it.”

She continued: “I mean, listen, I went to a women’s college, Barnard College. And it only makes sense that I ended up there The view. This is basically like Barnard graduate school. So I see that very well. And it’s all good energy and everything else. … I have to be honest with you, much like college, at some point you have to move on.”