Elisabeth Hasselbeck Talks Time on THE VIEW: ‘Holy Spirit Just Had My Back’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Elisabeth Hasselbeck says God “guided” her during her time on THE VIEW.
“I believe, whether it’s SURVIVOR or your school lunch table or it’s your family situation — it’s all preparation,” she said in a conversation with Kirk Cameron. “God is not going to assign a platform to you without preparation in your heart first.”
Hasselbeck reflected on her time on the show, calling it “a blessing and a privilege,” and saying she “found joy” in moments on THE VIEW.
“Whoopi and I, to this day, are great friends,” she shared. “We are nothing alike. However, we connect because we have a shared heart in loving people well, and we really do care about one another. We don’t have to see things the same way.”
Cameron then asked how she came to work, day after day, knowing she would be challenged by both her co-hosts and the audience.
“The Holy Spirit just had my back,” Hasselbeck said. “When you try to do it in your own power, you lack joy. Your effort fails at some point, and you end up losing not just the battle of words and rhetoric and debate — you end up losing your spirit in it.”
She continued, “God just guided me, and I didn’t always do it perfectly, but I hope that overall it was glorifying to Him at the end of every day.”
Hasselbeck opened up about her time on THE VIEW in her book, “Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom.”
“It was called THE VIEW, as in definite and singular,” she wrote. “Yes, there were bonds of friendship formed around the table despite opposing views, but there were also bonds broken because of those differing perspectives.”
Hasselbeck continued, “Like a fighter after ten rounds in a ring, I was exhausted from holding one side of the issue alone, though happy to do it.”
She has also reflected on a conversation she had with Joy Behar about her faith, calling it a “Godversation” — ”a conversation minus condemnation when talking about God.”
“For 10 years she and I debated, and reacting in those situations perhaps I could have offered a more tender witness to this awesome God- instead many times- I reacted,” Hasselbeck wrote in an Instagram post about her relationship with Behar. “Did I always show grace…sometimes not. And sometimes I felt the need to stand firm and be bold… For now, I pray to always be able to have grace filled #Godversations like this…”
Movieguide® previously reported on Hasselbeck:
Recently on THE VIEW, former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a born-again and out-spoken Christian, shared her pro-life views on the show after Whoopi Goldberg suggested God supports abortion.
Hasselbeck explained, “I personally believe, not because I believe life has value [but] because I believe our Creator assigns value to life and that those lives have plan and purpose over them, as designed by God, that are not limited to the circumstances of conception, nor the situations they’re born into.”
Hasselbeck left the show in 2013 but returned last Wednesday as part of the series’ 25th anniversary.
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