14 DAY TRIAL // Jenny McCarthy is now a co-host on The View but, had things been different, she would have been with Oprah’s OWN network. However, she opted to pursue other projects and, in so doing, ditched Oprah to the curb, she says.
Jenny did an interview with Bravo’s Andy Cohen the other day, which is when she made the admission that she was scared of Oprah because she imagined she was on her blacklist – not the first person on it, but definitely in the top 4.
“I did a deal with her for five years, but we, we kinda shook hands. I would be scared she would beat me up. [The deal] didn’t [work out] I left. I am terrified... I would be like OH NO [if we ran into each other],” Jenny said, as cited by Us Weekly.
So what this sounds like is that Jenny and Oprah agreed that she’d be getting her own show on OWN but she got a better offer and then walked out on O, going back on her word.
If that was the case, Oprah isn’t admitting to it. “@JennyMcCarthy don't have a [expletive] list. If I did you'd never be on it. Wishing you only good fortune,love and light and watching @theview,” the Queen of Television tweeted after this got out.
Either Oprah was feeling generous or the things were never as bad as Jenny imagined them to be, and she’s just trying to get publicity out of it regardless.