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.

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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.