Barbara Walters warned in an old opening of "The View" that perhaps she’d created a show featuring “different women, (with) different points of view, maybe a little too different."

“Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View,’” by Variety’s New York Bureau Chief Ramin Setoodeh (out Tuesday) alleges behind-the-scenes betrayal and consistent conflict on the show. For weeks, the work through early excerpts has spurred headlines about the co-hosts' contempt for one another. The book even seemed to reignite a feud between former colleagues Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, whose tenures as hosts overlapped during the 2006-2007 season.

O'Donnell revealed she had “a little bit of a crush" on the former “Survivor” contestant, which was "in no way sexualized." O'Donnell's theory that "there are not many, in my life, girls with such athletic talent on sports teams that are traditionally male that aren’t at least a little bit gay," offended Hasselbeck, a former college athlete.

In "Ladies Who Punch" O'Donnell also said her father, who died of cancer in 2015, sexually abused her.

Last week O’Donnell shared her disdain for author Setoodeh. In an Instagram Live she slammed him as "a man taking a history of 'The View' and creating only the stories that were negative and conflicted between everyone. And then he named his book 'Ladies Who Punch.' So, he’s a misogynist … and I’m disappointed in him as a human being.”

Yes, “Ladies Who Punch” certainly takes jabs at the show, now in its 22nd season, which has a number of awards. It also became the first U.S. daytime talk show to host a sitting president when Barack Obama visited in 2010.

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Here are the book's most shocking claims.

Rosie O'Donnell's bumpy tenure on 'The View'

Setoodeh says that it was an adjustment when O'Donnell joined the team. She hosted the show from 2006-2007 and then again from 2014-2015.

"It was a completely different show," current host Joy Behar told the author. "It became a lot about Rosie O'Donnell." Former show director Mark Gentile assessed: "From day one, she was here to teach these morons how to do a show. Everything we did was wrong, no matter what it was." O'Donnell also had ire for former executive producer Bill Geddie, an "idiot" she thought of as a "misogynistic alpha male who thought he was better than the women."

But O'Donnell was also fuming at Walters following the start of her feud with now-President Donald Trump.

In December 2006, O'Donnell went off on Trump, comparing him to a "snake oil salesman in 'Little House on the Prairie" and said he'd been "bankrupt so many times." This motivated Trump to go after her in the press.

He told People magazine at the time: "Rosie’s a loser. A real loser. I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie."

O'Donnell said she "felt very betrayed" by Walters for speaking to Trump. On Jan. 8, 2007 in the dressing room, O'Donnell supposedly "exploded" and "shouted insults" Walters' way, for not reaching out to her, according to Setoodeh.

O'Donnell also had issues with Whoopi Goldberg when O'Donnell returned to the program in 2014. "Whoopi Goldberg was as mean as anyone has ever been on television to me, personally – while I was sitting there," O'Donnell told the author. "The worst experience I've ever had on live television was interacting with her."

A representative for O'Donnell told USA TODAY O'Donnell would not comment on how she is portrayed in the book.

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck's hardships

Hasselbeck wrote in her book, "Point of View," released last week, that being fired from "The View" was so traumatic it brought on an asthma attack. Although the former "View" co-host admitted aspects of her workday weighed on her, Setoodeh alleges "she threatened to quit often, sometimes even telling Barbara to her face (or behind her back) that she was over 'The View.' "

Hasselbeck served as host from 2003 to 2013.

Setoodeh also writes of an alleged backstage meltdown that stemmed from a heated on-camera discussion about the morning-after pill. Hasselbeck, who Setoodeh writes, felt "everybody was ganging up on her" in a backstage discussion of the topic, expressed her conservative view in front of the camera. Walters repeatedly told her on camera they had to be able to have conversations without having a big reaction, which supposedly set Hasselbeck off.

"As the show cut to a commercial, Elisabeth ripped up her note cards and stormed off the stage," according to "Ladies Who Punch."

Audio of the incident, released by Variety Friday, corroborates his account of what happened next.

"'(Expletive) that!' Elisabeth screamed in a narrow corridor behind the stage. 'I'm not going to sit there and get reprimanded on the air,' " Setoodeh says she told Behar, adding: "I'm not going back out there."

Hasselbeck was so upset she allegedly told a producer she was quitting but was coaxed back to the stage before the show resumed from commercial.

USA TODAY has reached out to Hasselbeck's representative for comment.

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Star Jones' dramatic exit

Star Jones, one of the show's original hosts present when the show premiered in 1997, took things into her own hands in 2006 when she announced her departure from "The View" on-air, to the surprise of her colleagues. Jones revealed the show was "moving in another direction."

"Nobody at ABC had the courage to tell Star to her face that she was getting fired," Setoodeh writes. The news was supposedly broken to her by Jones' ex-husband, Al Reynolds.

Jones said she was asked to stay for three months and "initially I was going to be okay with that" until stories began publishing about her yet-to-be-announced exit.

Jenny McCarthy's misery

McCarthy, a host from 2013-2014, told Setoodeh that this was "the most miserable" she'd been on a job in all of her time in the industry.

"I was told, 'We cannot do pop culture anymore because (Walters) doesn't know who the people are,'" McCarthy relayed to Setoodeh, explaining the show wanted her to dive into politics. "I panicked because I don't consider myself a political person. ... I was going to work crying. I couldn't be myself."

McCarthy made an effort to avoid Walters, who she said scrutinized her outfit choices. "When I'd hear the shuffle of her feet, I knew that Barbara was after me," she said in "Ladies Who Punch." "It would get faster. Oh my God – she's coming! Based on the speed of the shuffle, I would hide or get on the phone."

However, McCarthy said she has "zero hard feelings" toward Walters, explaining: "I loved her like a grandma. She didn't know any better."

Joy Behar's close-call firing

Behar, with the show from the start, was ousted in 2013 but tells Setoodeh she had a close call when O'Donnell first joined the show in 2006. Behar says she was told "a hundred times" to keep O'Donnell's coming aboard under wraps but when approached by Entertainment Tonight, she told the outlet she was excited to work with her new co-host. Minutes later, she was reminded by Walters not to "say a word" about O'Donnell.

"I go back to my (hotel) room, practically saying the rosary, even though I don't believe it," Behar said in the book, noting she then got a call from Walters.

"I want you to know I'm not renewing your contract," Walters supposedly said. Behar told Setoodeh she was ready to get another job but that Walters "changed her mind ten minutes later."

Behar said she had a similar nonchalant attitude when she was really given the boot.

"I had been planning to get out of there," she told Setoodeh, equating it to being "just bored."

Behar returned to "The View" in 2015 and is a current co-host.

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