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Joy Behar has been absent from several episodes of The View this week.

And fans of the show are growing increasingly concerned about the 83-year-old’s health and well-being.

Longtime viewers know that Joy has been a fixture on The View since its very first episode, back in 1997.

Behar took an extended hiatus from the show between 2013 and 2015, but those years aside, she’s appeared in virtually every episode.

So where has she been this week? And is she planning another extended hiatus?

Here’s everything we know about this perplexing situation:

Whoopi Goldberg explains Joy’s absence, admits uncertainty about return

On Wednesday’s episode of The View , co-host Whoopi Goldberg offered the most detailed explanation yet of Joy Behar’s situation .

“We

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