The former co-host of “The View” admitted to Kelly Ripa that she had experienced her period at one point while she was conducting an interview with a guest on the show’s light-colored couch.
During her time as a co-host on The View, Jenny McCarthy revealed that she experienced a particularly unforgettable moment.
During the episode of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast that aired on July 17, McCarthy, who is 51 years old, disclosed to Ripa that she experienced her period while she was recording an episode of The View.
McCarthy was initially questioned by Ripa regarding her time spent as a co-host on the well-known daytime talk show, as well as any peculiar anecdotes she may have recalled from her time working on the series. In the years 2013 and 2014, McCarthy was a co-host for the seventeenth season of the show.
“I have some stories from there, and given, all of them turn funny,” she began before detailing a time she was sitting on the light-colored couch and felt her period arrive. She explained that she and her co-hosts were interviewing someone, although she doesn’t recall who the guest was, and “all of a sudden [her] eyes go wide.”
“I just feel like this rush of a period, and when in your 40s, when you’re perimenopausal, you bleed out. You basically hemorrhage, you know, your uterus falls out,” she said. “I’m sorry. But it does.”
“Perimenopause,” which occurs before women enter menopause, is typically “marked by changes in the menstrual cycle, along with other physical and emotional symptoms,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Perimenopause is characteristic of women who have not yet entered menopause. According to WebMD, women who are transitioning into menopause are more likely to experience heavy bleeding than other women.
McCarthy recalled that she began crossing her legs more tightly in order to prevent the menstrual blood from flowing down her legs while she was on television. This was she did because she was “wearing a freaking dress.”
“So I wrap up the interview kind of early and everybody gets up except for me. And I just sit there,” she told Ripa. “I just sit there.”
“So now everybody’s doing something else, gone, and I’m sitting by myself. And I’m like trying to talk to someone. But I didn’t wanna say over the microphone, ‘I got my period. Please help me.’ ”
At some point, someone did come over, and she provided them with an explanation of the problem; nevertheless, the individual responded by saying, “It’s going to be fine, just get up and run.” McCarthy, on the other hand, responded by saying, “No, you do not comprehend perimenopausal periods.” This situation is going to be a catastrophe. The couch needs to be used to force me out of the room.'”
The judge from “The Masked Singer” did, in fact, “glide past everybody” in order to return to the backstage area. After arriving at the location, she disclosed that the actors and crew were able to observe the blood and “were all horrified.”
“Talk about a scary movie,” Ripa joked. “You’ve been through the craziest s—.”
