'The View' Ladies React to Star Jones on Oprah

The ladies of "The View" responded to the comments made by their former co-host Star Jones on Oprah Winfrey regarding her gastric bypass surgery that she kept a secret.

"I'm going to take a bypass. … Good luck to her," Joy Behar said on the show when asked about Star. "We had to cover for her. We had to say [her weight loss] was from diet and exercise which it wasn't."

On Oprah, Star was asked to react to a previous clip of Barbara Walters on Oprah saying her secret surgery caused "The View" audience to feel "uncomfortable" and unable to "relate" to Star anymore. "I'm so sorry that I placed a burden on my colleagues. I never asked them to lie," Star said.

On today's "The View" Barbara said of her former co-host's disclosure on Oprah, "We really do wish her well."

Published 4/2/09 by