The View‘s Sunny Hostin got more than she expected after sampling food that former co-host Debbie Matenopoulos brought to the show this week.
“You mean when I almost died?” Hostin asked on Friday’s show, after co-host Joy Behar prompted her to tell their co-hosts that day, including Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro, what had happened.
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Hostin then explained that Matenopoulos — who hosted the show when it premiered in 1997 until 1999, when the network chose not to renew her contract — had brought eats from her new cookbook, GREEK.ish, on Wednesday.
“She has this wonderful food, Greek food,” Hostin explained. “I have a terrible allergy to walnuts. As I’m eating the food, Alyssa asks, ‘Are those walnuts in here?’ And she says ‘yes.’ So I panic immediately.”
Hostin said that she then wrote a “death note” to Griffin telling her about the allergy.
“She responds, ‘Oh, no!'” Hostin said. “And I’m looking at [executive producer] Brian [Teta] and he’s like, ‘Is everything OK?’ No, it’s not.”
Fortunately, she said, the on-site medical team swooped in to save the day.
“What was great was, our Disney nurses are like superheroes,” Hostin said. “Nurse Jan came in with an EpiPen. She was testing me. I had Benadryl. I was scared.”
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Griffin admitted she hadn’t been able to read the “death note.”
But Hostin reassured her.
“She was great in the moment,” Hostin said. “I panicked.”
Griffin said the team were glad their costar made it through the ordeal.
Haines at least had no idea that Hostin was allergic to one of the ingredients in a salad Matenopoulos brought, she said.
Having joined the show as a cohost in 2016, Hostin has experienced a number of cooking segments, though few are likely as memorable.
Watch the full conversation above.