Raven-Symoné Said She Was Catfished Into Joining ‘The View’

We all seen Raven-Symoné not being such a good fit during her time on ’The View’ daytime talk show. She recently was on ABC News special podcast The View: Behind the Table and revealed that she felt “catfished” into joining the show.

“I got catfished. I feel like I just got catfished. I thought i was going on a show, like Candace [Cameron Bure], where it was pop culture and fun and exciting and I got catfished, and I learned a good lesson.”

She also said she was “pitched a completely different direction” than how the show actually played out.

“I said, ‘Politics is not…my bag. I’ve never spoken publicly about politics. I don’t even come from a political family, meaning I didn’t grow up speaking about politics,’” she said. “So they had told me, ‘We’re going so much lighter,’ a lot more would be evergreen. We want to talk more about family and sex and life, so I was like, ‘Absolutely, 100 pecent, I’m on board.’ And then it all changed when Trump entered the [presidential] race.”

She spoke about the pressure to speak for the LGBTQ community on the panel.

“The only reason I really got through a lot of the stuff that I did pet through was because of Whoopi [Goldberg] and the producers as well,” she said. “There is something amazing about the behind the scenes of The View that kind of puts the salve over all the BS that’s going on camera made it possible to stay as long as we did.”