There was a bit of back and forth when it came to locking Sherri down for her stint on the daytime talk show, with the 58-year-old comedian detailing the journey she went on to land a seat at the desk in a new interview with Vulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Joy Behar liked me so much and asked for me back,” she said after filling in for Star Jones when Jones had to go to\u00a0Johnnie Cochran’s funeral.<\/p>\n “I had just found out my then-husband was cheating, and I went on there and told everybody. They were like, ‘She has got diarrhea of the mouth.’\u00a0I hit so many checkboxes — they loved that I was the Black single mom, funny, and willing to tell everything about my life,” she recalled, calling it a “defining career move.”<\/p>\n She made quite the first impression and co-creator of The View, Bill Geddie, who she says asked her to be a “regular,” adding that Star was going to leave.<\/p>\n “I said, ‘That’s too messy for me,” and said\u00a0‘no,'” she shared.<\/p>\n Then in 2006, Jones announced on live television that she was leaving\u00a0The View\u00a0after her contract was not renewed, later alleging she was \u201cfired\u201d by the network.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sherri was still front of mind, leading Barbara Walters<\/a> to call Sherri to join the show — not once, but twice. Both times the answer was still a hard no, per Shepherd, with Walters allegedly ending the call with, “Good-bye, dear.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “They didn’t call me back for about nine months; Bill had to talk to Barbara because she holds stuff for a long time,” she revealed.<\/p>\n Then came the negotiations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sherri Shepherd Drops Name of Actress Who Allegedly Accosted Her at Othello Opening Night<\/p>\n View Story\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n “They didn’t want to give me no money; I would have made more in a sitcom, and I got a boy with special needs. Then all kinds of articles were coming out that I was being difficult, and I had to deal with the tabloids. Rosie O’Donnell <\/a>called and was like, ‘Let me tell you what everybody’s making — I make $2 million, Joy makes $500,000, Elisabeth Hasselbeck makes $500,000, so you need to ask for $2 million,” she claimed.<\/p>\n “They had offered me $400,000. I eventually made a million, too. I always will credit Rosie O\u2019Donnell for being free with that,” Sherri added.<\/p>\n She then joined the desk alongside Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters from 2007 to 2014.<\/p>\n Now, she is leading her own daytime talk show, filling the void left when The Wendy Williams\u00a0Show\u00a0went off the air in 2021, following Wendy’s highly publicized health issues.<\/p>\n The show, now called Sherri,\u00a0is about to begin its fourth season. It is the No. 1 syndicated talk program for Black women ages 25 to 54.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3549dcdc18e94204aae51dfc238dcc31_xs.jpg\")
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