“The View”'s Joy Behar recalls almost dying from ectopic pregnancy: 'I was on the gurney screaming for my life'

Joy Behar is reflecting on how a near-death experience changed her life forever.

The comedian, 82, opened up about suffering an ectopic pregnancy in 1979 on Friday’s episode of The View as part of a conversation about the new Hulu comedy series, The Best Heart Attack of My Life.

Behar revealed that she’d similarly had three transformative moments within her own life. “I had one on Inauguration Day. And one time I fell off a chair. That’s another one,” she said, referring to her infamous 2022 tumble. “Another time I really actually did die, but I didn’t see — they say you go through a tunnel and you see a white light.”

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When her cohost Sunny Hostin asked Behar to clarify whether or not she saw the light, the latter replied, “No. I went through a tunnel though — maybe I was just in Jersey, I don’t know! It’s possible.”

Behar went on to detail how her ectopic pregnancy changed her perspective on life. According to the Mayo Clinic, an ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg “implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus.” As a result, the egg “can't survive, and the growing tissue may cause life-threatening bleeding" if left untreated.

“It's different when someone else dies. It's not you. There I was and I thought, ‘This is it, kid,'" Behar recalled. "And I thought it was going to be... and I had bled internally and et cetera. The doctor was playing golf, of course, so I was on the gurney screaming for my life.”

She credited her health scare with putting her on a brand new path. “After that happened I let my hair go curly, because I was straightening my hair out, I got a divorce, I got fired from my job at Good Morning America, and I completely changed my life and that’s why I’m here today,” she said. “So it really does make a difference!”

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Behar previously shared her story in a 2022 episode of The View, telling her co-hosts at the time that she was “rushed to the hospital” and later told by her doctor that “we almost lost you.”

Her reflection comes just over a month after the host revealed on The View’s Behind the Table podcast that she personally doesn’t believe in an afterlife. “It’s like, no, I don’t want another life. It’s fine,” Behar said at the time. “It’s like before you were born, did you know anything? No. It’s the same thing after you die. I believe that.” 

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.

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