Peacock’s new Casey Anthony documentary won’t be watched by a lot of people for their own reasons, but Joy Behar says she won’t watch it because of a work dispute from years ago. Behar said on a recent episode of The View that she won’t watch Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies because she thinks Anthony is to blame for her talk show being canceled.
During a discussion about the ethics of the docuseries, which comes more than a decade after Anthony was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, Behar took a trip down memory lane and reminded her co-hosts that while the whole country was watching the trial, she was hosting a “very good” talk show that ended too soon.
I have no interest in [Anthony], but years ago I had a show on HLN and it was a really good show ’cause I interviewed all sorts of [people]: Diane Keaton, Catherine Deneuve and Bill Murray, and it was a wonderful show,
Behar said.
Say Anything!, her show, started on HLN in 2009 and ran there for two seasons. For its third and last season, it moved to Current TV. Behar was sad that HLN canceled her show in 2011, the same year that Anthony’s trial started.
Casey Anthony became the focal point of that network, and that was the end of my show,
Behar told The View, adding,
For some reason, crime and a story like this really grabs people’s attention. It does not grab my attention. I can’t stand her either.
Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that Behar was on the same network as Nancy Grace, who for years hosted a news show called “Nancy Grace” on the same network and talked a lot about Anthony’s trial in 2011. Behar replied,
I was … that’s what happened, and I could not stand to talk about her.
Behar doubled down after calling Anthony “a little liar.” She raised her eyebrows and said, “She’s a liar.”
Ana Navarro, who works with Behar, said earlier in the episode that she “can’t stand” Anthony. She told the panel that she couldn’t even look at her face or listen to her voice.
If people wanna watch that, that’s up to them. If I’m gonna watch a documentary, it’ll be about whales and lemmings and iguanas in the Galapagos Islands. I think it’s incredibly offensive,
she said.
