Joy Behar was quick to remind Lauren Sanchez that she was turned down for a job on “The View” not once, but twice, during her last appearance on the popular daytime show.

Lauren, 54, who burst into tears on “Good Morning America” ​​earlier this week, joined the panel on Friday’s episode to promote her new children’s book, “The Fly That Flew into Space” – and admitted she was “a little nervous” to sit at the table.

The former journalist, who is engaged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, explained: “I have to tell you, it’s so funny, my hand was shaking back there and my sister looked at me and said, ‘This time you’re not auditioning, you’re a guest,'” Joy, 81, explained.

“For your information, Lauren auditioned for this show twice and the people in charge decided, ‘No, you’re not getting the job,’ but look at you now, I don’t think you needed the job!” said the comedian, and Alyssa Farah Griffin told the brunette, “You haven’t aged a day.”

Lauren recalls her failed auditions, saying, “The first time I did it, I think it was about 20 years ago, I was super young. I think they replaced Debbie Matenopoulos at the time and I auditioned. It was so much fun.”

Joy Behar immediately reminded Lauren Sanchez that she was rejected not once, but twice for a job on The View

Lauren sits next to Joy during one of her auditions for The View in March 1999

“And one time… when I actually saw the clip, I couldn’t believe it. They pulled my hair back, they made me dress a little more conservatively, and after the show, Barbara Walters took me aside and said, ‘What are you doing?’ And I thought, ‘What do you mean?'”

“She says, ‘If you’re going to go down, go down as yourself, because if you don’t go down as yourself, you’re going to go down twice over yourself,’ and that was incredible advice,” Lauren said of the show’s creator, who died in December 2022.

She then turned to Joy and said, “And I don’t know if you remember this. I was having a rough time, I was stressed, and you walked past me and said, ‘Cheer up, boy,'” to which Joy jokingly replied, “I’m so nice.”

Her co-host Sunny Hostin then confirmed that she was also trying to land a job on The View at the time, saying, “You and I auditioned together during the Hunger Games round!”

Joy was keen to compliment Lauren and told her, “It’s so great that everything worked out so well for you, so we don’t have to feel guilty about you not being on the show.”

Elsewhere in her interview, Lauren spoke about her fiancé Jeff, saying, “I’m really looking forward to spending my life with someone that I deeply respect and care about, and who loves my children.”

When asked why she had “kind of a blackout” when he proposed to her in May 2023, Lauren said: “He literally looked at her and was like, ‘I think you’re a little bit in shock.’ He said, ‘Take a deep breath,’ and I said, ‘Are we engaged?’ and he said, ‘Yes, we’re engaged.'”

She also had tears in her eyes as she spoke to The View panel about her dyslexia and how it inspired her children’s book.

Lauren, pictured here on The View in March 1999, talked about advice given to her by the show’s creator, Barbara Walters

Lauren, pictured here in March 2023, gushed about her fiancé Jeff and her respect for him

“After I wrote the story, I realized, ‘Oh, it’s about my son,’ who is dyslexic. Every time I talk about it, I cry, so I’m sorry. But it’s really about me.

“So, I grew up dyslexic, not knowing that I was dyslexic. I couldn’t read. I was a sweet little girl and I sat at the back of the class, and they kind of pushed me.

“I got to community college and this one teacher… I wanted to be a journalist, that’s all I wanted to be. I tried here and I wanted to write for the newspaper and she said, ‘Do you want to write?’ I said, ‘I can’t write,’ and she said, ‘Just write without worrying about punctuation or spelling.'”

“When I handed in my paper, she looked at me and said, ‘You’re not stupid, you just can’t spell,’ and after that, things went uphill for me,” Lauren explained, fighting back tears.

“So this book is for all the kids out there who are struggling in school and going through a tough time. It’s going to be OK, and to all the parents out there who have a child with learning difficulties, I say: It’s going to be OK,” she added as everyone applauded her.