Sara Haines is breaking down what exactly happened with The View guest who left her completely blindsided.
During the Tuesday, Nov. 18 episode of the ABC talk show, Haines was caught off guard when their guest, mentalist Oz Pearlman, revealed Haines’ real ATM PIN number while live on air.
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Haines, 48, had to be bleeped out after saying “What the f—k?” in response to Pearlman’s unexpected revelation.
“No one knows my PIN,” she said, while asking, “Why would you say it on national television!”
Haines and her co-hosts discussed the situation during Thursday’s live show, when Behar said Haines had a “nervous breakdown” and “started crying” after her personal information was shared during Pearlman’s segment.
“He told me he would never talk about [my] real PIN number on the air, 40 minutes before, so he asked me to come up with a fake PIN number—because, of course, he wouldn’t say my real pin number,” Haines said, calling the moment a “little bit of a betrayal.”
Haines later shared more details from her side of the story during the Behind the Table podcast on Thursday, where she expressed feeling “violated” by Pearlman’s actions, especially since he had allegedly “repeated” to her that he would not use her real ATM code.
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“The backstory that people don’t know is we were asked to meet with him 40 minutes prior to him being on the show,” Haines said, while noting, “By the way, in all my years on any TV show, when a magician, illusionist, mentalist, whatever the people are, we’ve never had to pre-meet with anyone.”
“When we went out, and he read the numbers, it was an impressive routine he’d been working on for 40 minutes or whatever, but the part that got me, my reaction—and I shouldn’t be swearing on the air—was not, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re such a good mentalist’ or whatever. It was, ‘You reassured me three or four times in that room we’re not going to use your real PIN number, we’re coming up with an imaginary one,'” said Haines. “I’ve never felt so violated on air.”
During the segment, Haines wrote down a fake PIN number, 1255, which Pearlman correctly guessed, before going on to accurately reveal her real PIN number, too. (Haines claimed she never shared the number with Pearlman.)
“To have someone do something like that that’s so private, we hear about bank fraud and stolen identities…”And then a guest comes on our show and repeats my PIN after reassuring he wouldn’t?” she said, noting that Pearlman “never apologized” after the show.
“He kind of zipped out of here,” Haines said. “Later in the day, I was kind of waiting to see if he’d reach out on social to say, ‘Hey, that was a poor move to get clicks, I’m sorry about that.’ He never did.”
“I don’t like someone that will sell a human violation for clickbait. He’s posting like crazy, every article about him, and he thinks it’s great,” she added. “I’ve literally, in all my years in television, never been violated where someone lied.”
Parade reached out to Pearlman for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
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