Candace Cameron Bure Explains Why She Turned Down Returning to ‘The View’ for Milestone 30th Season

Candace Cameron Bure recently shared why she opted not to return to The View for its milestone 30th season.

“They did reach out to me, and they offered me the week that my daughter gave birth, so I knew that was coming,” the Full House alum, 50, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Friday, October 16. “I didn’t want to be far away and miss anything, but I’m definitely open to it.”

Candace’s daughter Natasha, 28, welcomed her first child, Winnie, with her husband, Bradley Steven Perry, earlier this month. Along with Natasha, the former Hallmark star shares sons Lev, 26, and Maksim, 24, with her husband, Valeri Bure.

It seems Candace has been busy in grandma mode this fall: As Star previously reported, Lev and his wife, Elliott, welcomed their son, Bond, in September.

However, the mom of three told the outlet she is “still going to think about” a return to the hit talk show, which is cohosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

“Yeah, you might see me at the table. We’ll see,” she said. “I feel open to it if they offer up another date.”

The Dancing with the Stars alum appeared as a conservative voice on The View from 2015 to 2016 for seasons 19 and 20.

In a 2021 interview with Vanity Fair, Candace got candid about the “stress and the anxiety” being part of the roundtable brought on.

“There was only one type of stress that I’ve ever felt in my life, that came from that show,” she shared. “And I [have] PTSD, like, I can feel it. It was so difficult, and to manage that emotional stress was very, very hard.”

“When I felt like I was going into a show that I didn’t have a clear opinion about or it was something that I was legitimately nervous to talk about because I did have an opinion about it but I knew I was the only one at the table that had my opinion, I would just get sick to my stomach,” Candace recalled to the outlet at the time. “I hated that feeling. And then I’m like, ‘I don’t know who’s going to come at me.'”