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The View cohost Sara Haines missed the show’s first new episode since June due to a home emergency.
Haines said her basement caved in amid a storm that swept through the East Coast.
The cohost said it’s “not very hopeful” at the moment, as her home endured damage to a corner of the basement.
Sara Haines is definitely not taking a little time to enjoy the view of her home’s basement in its current state.
After missing The View‘s first new episode since June following the Fourth of July holiday, Haines has explained why she wasn’t at the Hot Topics table alongside two other cohosts — and revealed details about the home emergency that led to her absence.
“I wake up to a text from you saying my basement is caving in,” producer Brian Teta said during a Wednesday conversation with Haines on the show’s Behind the Table podcast, during which he referenced a wild series of developments that saw natural disasters prevent three cohosts — Haines, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ana Navarro — from appearing on Monday’s broadcast.
Sara Haines on ‘The View’
Credit: Jeff Lipsky/ABC
“We thought we felt the A/C go off, because those days over the weekend, it was hitting 90 degrees,” Haines replied, telling Teta that her husband, Max Shifrin, “went down to check on something and he’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s water.’ I went down, and the ceiling was falling off.”
Haines said that the couple and their three children experienced a similar occurrence in December, and that’s when they discovered that there’s “an elbow piece our builder used that’s known to be corroded at times,” and that “once there’s corrosion, it can pop off” and lead to damage.
“Last time, it was our water heater, this time it was just a water pipe. But the damage was three times as bad. It’s not our whole basement, it’ s a whole corner of our basement. They had to cut it out, we had professional air cleaners,” Haines recounted. “The bigger problem here is they kind of raised this to us, this has happened twice in six months, these pieces are used throughout your house. So, now we’re in that intermediary time where do we go proactively find all these pieces to get ahead of it, or do we keep waiting until it happens?”
Haines called the damage expensive, but said that insurance offset the cost.
Still, “even though we’re okay and we’re going to survive and not a lot was wrecked that can’t be fixed, it is still like, not very hopeful,” Haines estimated.
Teta then apologized to her for not being “immediately sympathetic” when she texted him regarding her absence, as he was in a panic over Goldberg and Navarro being unable to join the episode as well, due to a volcanic eruption stranding Goldberg in Italy (yes, really) and a storm that grounded flights from Navarro’s home in Miami back to New York City.
“It was a disaster, you couldn’t be here,” Teta eventually admitted.
Joy Behar, who typically has Mondays off, stepped in to cover for her peers on the broadcast, with both Teta and the comedian revealing that he “begged” her to come in and do the show.
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A representative for The View did not respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for an update on Haines’ home emergency.
Watch Haines recount her home emergency in the Behind the Table podcast episode above.
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