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Joy Behar Recalls Growing Up in a Tenement With Her Father’s ‘Compulsive Gambling’ Habit


The View's Joy Behar recalled growing up in a tenement with her father, who was a 'compulsive gambler' and the moment she realized her family was 'poor.'

Get back to the Joy Behar opened up about her childhood, living in a tenement with her family years before finding fame. During an episode of The View ’s “Behind the Table” podcast on Wednesday, May 1, Joy, 81, and executive producer Brian Teta discussed Whoopi Goldberg ’s new book, Bits & Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me. I looked around and I said, ‘We’re poor.’ They’ve been pulling the wool over my eyes with their theaters and their Chinese food This is money over here.

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