“The View” hosts expressed remorse for fueling the conspiracy theories surrounding Kate Middleton’s whereabouts following the royal’s recent cancer announcement.
On Monday’s episode of the daytime talk show, the women addressed Middleton’s diagnosis with Whoopi Goldberg asking the table what their thoughts were.
“I feel awful, Whoopi was right and I’m guilty of getting into the fun of ‘Where’s Kate?’ and thinking it’s funny and sharing the memes and playing into that,” Alyssa Farrah Griffin, 34, started.
“And I forgot something fundamental that we all know and that is every person — whether it’s a princess, somebody in high privilege or somebody next to you — is dealing with personal struggles that we have no idea about.
“I send my love and strength to her because sure, the palace totally mishandled the PR of this but the public mishandled it.”
Griffin also admitted that she didn’t think there was “something more serious” Middleton, 42, could have been dealing with because people tend to forget that even the royal family are “actual human beings.”
Sara Haines, 46, jumped in and called Middleton’s diagnosis “heart-wrenching.” However, she admitted that she was also skeptical about the palace’s handling of the news.
“You just never know what someone is going through. I’ve always questioned the way the royal family handles women, whether it was Princess Diana or Fergie (Sarah Ferguson) or Meghan Markle,” she said.
“I was not blaming Kate for what was going on, it really bothered me the way it was handled — whether it was my business or not could be debated. But I do hope now for a speedy recovery.”
Ana Navarro called the experience a “learning moment.”
“The lesson I learned was when Whoopi Goldberg tells me to mind my own damn business, I’ll mind my own damn business from now on,” she said, referring to…
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