Final week, Matenopoulos — who was a co-host on The View from 1997 to 1999 — stopped by the daytime speak present to advertise her new cookbook, GREEK.ish. She introduced a number of Greek plates for The View hosts to attempt, together with a dish that includes walnuts, which Hostin is extremely allergic to.

Whereas consuming the dish through the section, Hostin appeared considerably panicked, with the lawyer later sharing that she “virtually died” and recalled how she wrote a “loss of life word” to her co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, wherein she relayed that she’s allergic to walnuts.

In an interview with Leisure Weekly, printed on Tuesday, Matenopoulos mentioned she was unaware of Hostin’s walnut allergy, and producers had even authorised the recipes earlier than her look on Wednesday’s episode.

“I like all of them, I felt horrible,” she shared, including, “I went over the recipes with the producer on the present. At one level we mentioned we should always do that peach walnut upside-down cake.”

Hostin — who has been a co-host of The View since 2016 — admitted on Friday that she usually forgets about her allergy, saying she hasn’t had a response in 10 years, along with her co-host Sara Haines noting that she didn’t find out about Hostin’s allergy. And in keeping with Matenopoulos, The View producers weren’t conscious both.

The TV character mentioned she informed producers at one level, “God forbid somebody would have a nut allergy,” claiming {that a} producer replied that not one of the co-hosts have been allergic to the dishes. (EW reported that the particular person didn’t find out about Hostin’s allergy.)

“She thinks I’m attempting to kill her,” Matenopoulos joked to EW, including, “I wish to go on the document stating I undoubtedly was not attempting to kill Sunny Hostin!”

Though Hostin and her co-hosts poked enjoyable on the incident on Friday’s episode, producer Brian Teta mentioned to Hostin on The View’s Behind the Desk podcast on Monday that “it was truly extremely critical and scary.”

Recalling the footage of her on-air allergic response, the authorized knowledgeable mentioned she “had a panic assault.”

“I used to be truly panicking,” she continued. “The rationale I wrote the word to Alyssa was as a result of that was my loss of life word. That was like, if I went into anaphylactic shock, I needed everyone to know what was taking place. I believe I freaked her out as a result of she was like, ‘Oh no,’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh sure.’ I checked out you.”

Hostin and Teta famous how they made “eye contact,” with the producer mouthing to Hostin if all the things was alright, to which she shook her head no.

“My tongue was getting greater and swelling, and my lips have been swelling and burning,” she recalled, to which Teta mentioned if it ever occurs once more, for her to get out of her chair and “let folks know what is going on on.”

“I did not wish to mess up Debbie’s e-book,” Hostin replied, with Teta clarifying that it “was not Debbie’s fault.”

“If I’d have…ran off set that may have turn out to be the story as an alternative of her e-book at that second.,” Hostin continued. “And I did not wish to take that away from her as an writer myself, I did not wish to try this to her.”

The previous prosecutor revealed that her household “reminded” her of previous hospitalizations as a consequence of her allergy.

“My mom jogged my memory I used to be hospitalized at 5 due to it,” Hostin mentioned, “after which my husband jogged my memory, when he discovered about it, he was like, ‘You have been hospitalized 10 years due to this.’”

She mentioned that her pals, household, and workforce — together with her assistant — are conscious of her allergy, so she wasn’t involved that any of Matenopoulos’ dishes would have walnuts in them. Nevertheless, Hostin mentioned “in some way it simply bought misplaced in translation,” noting that it was an “accident.”

“I trusted that there would not be any walnuts,” she added. “Thank god, Alyssa mentioned, ‘Are there walnuts in right here?’”

Hostin beforehand praised the Disney nurses on set as “superheroes,” with Teta recalling within the podcast how everybody rushed into motion through the industrial break.

“We’ve folks operating for Benadryl, operating to get the nurse, EpiPens …” he mentioned, earlier than Hostin requested if she appeared “as terrified” as she felt.

“Yeah, you probably did. I used to be very nervous,” Teta admitted, to which Hostin mentioned, “I used to be terrified. I used to be pacing. I used to be terrified.”