The View Host Alyssa Farah Griffin Said The Show Makes Her Cry Often

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11-07-2025

The View panel got unexpectedly vulnerable on the show's July 9 episode, when Alyssa Farah Griffin opened up about a reality for many professionals, especially young ones.
During a conversation centered on Gen Z's openness to showing emotion in the workplace, Griffin confessed that she has shed tears at work.
'I cry at work, but I hide it,' Griffin said. 'My bosses will never know.'
The admission caught her co-hosts by surprise. Sunny Hostin, taken aback, asked, 'You cry at work?'
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Griffin responded, 'I have cried at this job at least a half a dozen times.'
Before the candid moment, Hostin explained that she has 'never felt the luxury to be able to cry at work.' The legal expert said she just tries to get her work done and 'be as excellent as I can.'
Griffin, meanwhile, described moments of overwhelm across the ABC studios, stating she's cried 'at every corner.'
Still perplexed, co-host Joy Behar pushed further and asked, 'What did you cry about? Give me an example.'
The political strategist responded, 'This is a very hard job to do and I often times have the only opinion that's different at a table of five people.'
Sarah Haines jumped in to broaden the lens, noting that workplace tears aren't exclusive to Gen Z.
'Gen Z, and even maybe the generation before, are talking about it because they can call it something,' she said.
Hostin chimed in again and asked her to elaborate on what exactly makes Haines cry at work, to which she responded, 'Every breakup I've ever went through.'
As the conversation wrapped, Whoopi Goldberg offered a final word.
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'There is nothing that people should be able to do to you to make you cry,' she said, adding that each panelist should support the others.
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'Nobody should be crying at this job,' she said.