The View fans beg for Selma Blair to join as new co-host as she appears on show to promote memoir
THE View fans have started begging the show to hire Selma Blair as a new co-host after watching her as a guest on Thursday.
The 49-year-old was on the talk show to discuss her new memoir, Mean Baby, and to open up a bit more about her battle with multiple sclerosis.
The hourlong program spent about 20 minutes of its new episode with Selma, but it wasn’t even close to enough for many viewers.
Instead of having her come back next time as a returning guest, fans begged for the show to hired her as a new anchor.
One wrote on Twitter: ”I’d love for Selma to co-host #TheView!”
Another said: “I loved the segment with Selma Blair.
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“So authentic!”
They added, begging: “Please have her back to co-host! #TheView”
A third agreed, saying “Selma would be a prodigiously gifted co-host.
They continued, explaining that “she is spectacularly generous with her informative eloquence” as an interviewee, but that she’d be just as great as an interviewer, as well.
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Others had the same thought, tweeting that Selma had really “nice responses” and was “fantastic” on The View.
The Dark Horse actress was diagnosed with MS back in 2018 and admitted she cried with relief after years of uncertainty.
Selma said she believes she has been in the early stages of MS for the past 15 years but was only taken seriously by doctors in recent times.
She said: “They weren’t tears of panic, they were tears of knowing I had to give in to a body that had loss of control.
“And there was some relief in that.”
MS is an incurable, life-long neurological condition where the immune system attacks the body and causes nerve damage to the brain and spinal cord.
The disease causes vision, balance and muscle problems and is usually diagnosed in people that are in their 20s and 30s.
Selma has been open about her battle with MS and has confidently walked red carpets with the help of a cane.
She shared on The View that her memoir, Mean Baby, is her latest attempt to be as open and honest with fans as possible about her life’s journey.
In the book, which came out Tuesday, “Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death,” according to Amazon.
The synopsis continues: “There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood and, finally, the simultaneous devastation and surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
“In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.”
During her appearance on the daytime talk show, she opened up a bit more about her long-time struggle with alcohol.
Selma admitted: “I really was an every day kind of drinker by the age of seven.
“Not a dead-drunk drinker but, yes, my coping mechanism was alcohol.
“And it didn’t become a battle until I realized it was ruining my personality.”
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She shared that she was “nervous” to put everything out there in her new book but felt it was necessary and important for her to do so.
The View hosts commended her on putting it all out there and for writing everything “beautifully and smart.”
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