“It turned out ‘The View’ wouldn’t talk about my book on TV — it was perhaps the show’s first forbidden topic,” author Ramin Setoodeh writes. But, “Joy Behar sat in a communal kitchen at ABC News as a producer read aloud tidbits to her.”

Setoodeh claims that Behar later told him that her husband, Steve Janowitz, also read the book, and gave it his seal of approval. Behar told Setoodeh, “[Steve] said, ‘Everything is true!’ ”