Abby Huntsman Reveals Real Reason She Left 'The View,' Next Project

Abby Huntsman got candid about her decision to leave ABC's "The View" last year.

In an interview with People, Huntsman said she has no regrets over her departure and even considers walking away from "The View" as the best decision she could have made for herself and her family.

"I don't talk much about that time, and I won't, but the decision that I made was probably the best decision I could have made for my life, for my mental health, for my happiness, for my family," she explained.

Huntsman, who was a host on MSNBC and Fox News before joining "The View" in 2018, said her exit was not a decision that came easily.

"I've been in the news industry for the last 10 years working at so many different places, but it was a decision that I felt in my gut, actually, for quite some time about making, much longer than people probably realize," she recalled. "And when I made the decision, I remember walking out those doors after they told me, 'No one quits their dream job in television,' and I said, 'Well, this isn't the dream job that I was hoping, in many ways, that it was.'"

"When I walked out those doors for the first time, I could hear the birds chirping in the city, in Central Park and I looked up in the sky and I thought, 'This is the best thing I did for myself.' Because I can see the world, I can hear the world, I'm more present," she continued.

Despite being happy with her decision, Huntsman admitted she'd spent a lot of time reflecting on her decision while she was "healing." According to the TV personality, the past year had involved "a lot of asking myself questions and thinking things back and wondering, 'Did you make a mistake, did you handle this right or that right?'"

According to Ramin Setoodeh in his 2019 book "Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View," Huntsman left because she was allegedly not happy with the management and leadership.

"Abby, who had spent just over a year on ‘The View’, reached her decision after multiple conversations with ABC executives about the toxicity at the root of the show," Setoodeh wrote. "When they didn’t respond to her, she told them that she’d like to move on, according to sources with knowledge of those conversations. Abby didn’t think that anyone at ABC was looking out for her."

At present, Huntsman is happy with her family. According to her, she watches reruns of "Modern Family" on Hulu and "CoComelon" and only reads if she wants to learn the news.

"I haven't turned on the TV because I just … I can't," she said. "I just — I don't watch TV anymore."

As for her next project, Huntsman will be co-hosting a podcast with her friend Lauren Leeds.

She said the show will focus on "real life things, ups and downs and big chapters in life, losing someone you love, getting married, having kids, getting a divorce, becoming grandparents. Every time we’ve talked on the phone over the year — she’s in L.A., I’m in New York — we talked about the ups and downs of life. And she’s also in television, and we just say, ‘How fun it would be for us to get together and do it the way we want to, have the conversations that we want to have and really pull out the most interesting things from interesting people?'"

Huntsman said she and Leeds are eyeing a fall premiere for the project, whose title she did not reveal.