The View co-host, sidelined since a backstage fall in late September dislocated her shoulder, told Vulture she plans to be back — with, in her words, all the gory details.
By The Wellness Desk — CelebnMusic247
Joy Behar is doing her recovery the way she does most things on television: out loud, and with a punchline ready — which is exactly the spirit of this Joy Behar dislocated shoulder update.
The 84-year-old co-host of The View has been away from the show since a backstage fall in late September left her with a dislocated shoulder, People reported. Speaking in a new interview with Vulture published on Friday, October 16, Behar was frank about what getting hurt at this stage of life feels like. “It’s a pain in the ass to be old,” she told the outlet, according to People.
Behar paired that honesty with the self-deprecating humor viewers know well. “I’m 84, but I have the brain of a 30-year-old and sometimes a 10-year-old, plus I look pretty good because I have Italian skin,” she continued in the Vulture conversation reported by People. Asked in effect why she keeps coming back to the table season after season, she compared returning to the show to going back to school. “You wouldn’t say to Picasso to stop painting,” she said. “You can’t tell me to quit being funny.”
Joy Behar dislocated shoulder update: the timeline so far
Her absence has been explained to viewers in stages, all of it on the record. On the October 1 episode, co-host Sunny Hostin told the audience, “Our dear friend Joy dislocated her shoulder,” adding that she was recovering and would be back soon, according to People. Behar’s last appearance on the show was September 30, and she went on to miss the episode around her October 7 birthday, when she turned 84.
She has kept in touch with the audience while she heals. In a message shared on the Tuesday, October 13 episode of The View and read at the table by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Behar thanked the people who had checked on her. “Thanks to everyone who inquired about my recovery,” the message began, per People. “If I was still 21, I’d have bounced back the next day. But since I’m an old bat, recuperating takes a bit longer.” She ended the message with a plan, not a farewell: “I plan to be back next week to fill everyone in on all the gory details.”
The loyalty on both sides
An earlier birthday note, also shared through Goldberg, struck the same joking tone. In it, Behar made clear she was still healing up after dislocating her shoulder, while Goldberg added on air, “What we’re saying is, get better fast so we can celebrate you back here on The View,” according to People.
There is some history behind the loyalty on both sides. People noted that Behar recently made history as the longest-running female talk show host thanks to her time on The View, that she is the only original member of the panel still hosting, and that the show is now in its 30th year. In September, when that hosting milestone was marked, she told People it felt “amazing,” joking that she had been on longer than Regis Philbin — and longer than the Jolly Green Giant.
What Behar has not done is share further medical details about the fall or her treatment, and this report sticks to what she and the show have actually said: a backstage fall in late September, a dislocated shoulder, several weeks away from the table, and her own stated plan, shared on October 13, to be back the following week. Until she is back in her seat with those promised gory details, the official word remains her own — recovery at 84 simply takes a bit longer than it did at 21.
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Sources: People, reporting Joy Behar’s interview with Vulture published Oct. 16 and her update amid her absence from The View, and Parade.
