The 79-year-old responded, “I did not miss you,” to a visibly shaken McCain.
“I had postpartum anxiety.
When I was back, I was really nervous.

Meghan McCain said ‘The View’ was a toxic work environment.Heidi Gutman/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
It was like starting TV all over again.
I was trying to make a joke, ‘You missed me so much.’
“I couldn’t stop crying, and I’m not always crying.
I couldn’t compose myself.
I threw up in the garbage can.
I was so overcome.
This is my narrative’I come back from maternity leave and no one missed me.'
I knew it was going to be everywhere.
“I don’t know why I’m crying so much.
I wish things could have been different.
I know she had her own dark times.
When I was on the show, she almost died of pneumonia.
I wish we had better leadership that could have stopped a lot of it.”
A rep for Goldberg didn’t immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
I don’t think you should feel disliked or ostracized for not voting for Obama.
The liberal media bubble is real.
No one walks away from a giant contract like the one I had if it was good.”
“The stress and the anxietyI actually have a pit in my stomach right now.
“And I have PTSD, like, I can feel it.
It was so difficult, and to manage that emotional stress was very, very hard.”
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Read McCain’s full interview withVariety.