Barbara walters on the view in-fighting: 'rosie and whoopi together was not peaches and cream'

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Barbara Walters admits she regrets her decision to leave The View last year. And she may not be the only one wishing she had stayed. According to a new _Vanity Fair_ story the show’s past


year has been an extremely turbulent one. The piece details the desperate search for co-hosts just a month before its relaunch in August, finally choosing Rosie Perez and Nicolle Wallace,


and describes an argument between Rosie O’Donnell and a producer that got so heated that staffers “ran over trying to separate them.” Wallace told PEOPLE last month that it had been a year


of ups and downs. And Walters said the return of O’Donnell did not help the in-fighting. “I think Rosie and Whoopi together was not peaches and cream. And I don’t think we needed the two of


them together.” Former co-host Joy Behar credits Walters with being the one who could calm behind-the-scenes tension saying Walters kept “the lid on craziness.”