Candace Cameron Bure opened up about her time on ABC's The View, and she doesn't have very many good things to say. Candace cohosted the talk show for two seasons in 2015 and 2016. While it seemed like a dream job for the actress at the time, she revealed in 2021 how she really felt about it.
The star actually went so far as to say that the experience of cohosting the show was traumatic for her in a variety of ways. On the podcast Behind the Scenes, she said that even thinking about her time on the show causes her emotional distress.
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"The stress and the anxiety — I actually have a pit in my stomach right now," she said. "There was only one type of stress that I've ever felt in my life, that came from that show. And I have PTSD, like, I can feel it. It was so difficult, and to manage that emotional stress was very, very hard."
Candace's post-traumatic stress disorder reveal is a pretty powerful statement. It certainly paints a pretty clear picture of exactly how much stress being on the show caused her. If it's true that she is really now suffering ill effects from her time on The View, it's remarkable that she made it through two entire seasons.
Candace's statements now make it seem like she really didn't want to be a part of the show at all. She says she felt "pressure" to represent conservatives in her stances. On top of that, she didn't really like or care about the topics they were supposed to be talking about in the first place.
It definitely seems like it was a very real struggle. Candace said she was "just trying to understand and have a general grasp of topics that I didn't want to talk about or didn't care about." Clearly, the job just wasn't a good fit, and Candace's heart wasn't in it. After all, you can only fake caring about the issues that impact our country and world for so long.
On top of not caring about what she was talking about, she also worried about how she would be perceived for her not-so-firm opinions. "When I felt like I was going into a show that I didn't have a clear opinion about or it was something that I was legitimately nervous to talk about because I did have an opinion about it but I knew I was the only one at the table that had my opinion, I would just get sick to my stomach," she said. "I hated that feeling. And then I'm like, 'I don't know who's going to come at me.'"
Candace said she often cried before going on the air. And the emotional struggle of traveling for the job was tough, too. Her family was in Los Angeles, and The View films in New York, so she was flying back home every weekend. Overall, it seems like she was unhappy and very drained.
Candace said that part of the reason why the show was so rough for her is that it wasn't exactly what she signed up for. There had been talks about the show being a bit "lighter" and steering away from politics. But when Donald Trump got elected, that became practically impossible.
While Candace obviously did not have a good experience on the show, she says she doesn't really regret it. She even said she was "grateful" for the experience. But it definitely wasn't one she'd be into doing again.
To put it simply, Candace is not taking any more time to enjoy The View.
