Joy Behar recalls near-death experience with ectopic pregnancy that left her 'screaming for her life'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: 'The View' co-host Joy Behar reflected on her near-death experience and how it inspired her to turn her life around on the Friday, January 24 episode of the ABC talk show.

The 82-year-comedian shared the personal story while discussing an upcoming Hulu series, 'The Best Heart Attack of My Life', with her co-hosts Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, reported Entertainment Weekly.

According to the show's IMDb synopsis, the story revolves around a ghostwriter who faces a life-threatening heart attack in a foreign country and is forced to rely on strangers for help. 'The unexpected crisis becomes a transformative experience, reshaping his perspective and impacting those around him.'

Joy Behar on her near-death experiences

During the conversation, Joy Behar claimed that she had three near-death experiences in her life. However, the most recent one that she mentioned first turned out to be a joke, as she said, "I had one on Inauguration Day."

Behar, along with her fellow co-hosts, is a staunch critic of Donald Trump, 78, who was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States at the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, January 20.

"And one time I fell off a chair. That’s another one,” she continued. "Another time I really actually did die, but I didn’t see — they say you go through a tunnel and you see a white light.”

Hostin asked Behar to clarify if she had seen the light at the time of near-death, to which she replied, "No. I went through a tunnel though — maybe I was just in Jersey, I don’t know! It’s possible.”

Joy Behar revisits horrific experience

Joy Behar shared how going through an ectopic pregnancy changed her perspective on life in the Friday episode. The medical condition takes place when a fertilized egg “implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus," as per the Mayo Clinic website. As a result, the egg “can't survive, and the growing tissue may cause life-threatening bleeding" if left untreated.

“It's different when someone else dies. It's not you. There I was and I thought, ‘This is it, kid,'" Behar recalled. "And I thought it was going to be... and I had bled internally and et cetera. The doctor was playing golf, of course, so I was on the gurney screaming for my life.”

However, after making a full recovery, Behar listed the changes she embraced in her life.

"After that happened I let my hair go curly, because I was straightening my hair out, I got a divorce, I got fired from my job at Good Morning America, and I completely changed my life and that’s why I’m here today,” she said. “So it really does make a difference!”