Bertinelli took an impassioned stance against sexual abuse, which included a bit of profanity live on the air. Valerie Bertinelli censored for dropping Fbomb live on The View Bertinelli took an impassioned stance against sexual abuse, which included a bit of profanity live on the air. :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/JoeyNolfiauthorphotoba4923fec03a4027868306485696ef41.jpg) Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at . Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more. EW's editorial guidelines March 11, 2026 12:15 p.m.

Bertinelli took an impassioned stance against sexual abuse, which included a bit of profanity live on the air.

Valerie Bertinelli censored for dropping F-bomb live on The View

Bertinelli took an impassioned stance against sexual abuse, which included a bit of profanity live on the air.

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Valerie Bertinelli was censored Wednesday on *The View* after the actress dropped the F-word during the live telecast.

The 65-year-old joined the show to promote her new book, *Getting Naked, *with the interview shifting to include an impassioned speech about protecting survivors of sexual assault, days after Bertinelli first revealed she was abused at age 11.

"I started trying to work through my traumas through the last 10 years, at least. I didn't tell many people," Bertinelli told the cohosts at the Hot Topics table. "When I'm seeing all of this happen and these incredibly brave survivors speaking about unspeakable things, and we have idiots in Congress — I want to use a stronger word — that are protecting them, that are still having their jobs by protecting them. Okay, I'm..."

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Valerie Bertinelli, Sunny Hostin, and Sheryl Underwood on 'The View'.

Bertinelli trailed off to cool down, before continuing with her criticism that was eventually censored.

"I'm so angry and I'm so disappointed in our world as a whole and how we treat survivors and how we just play it off as if it's nothing," Bertinelli said, before appearing to say, "It changes your entire f---ing life. I'm so furious that we aren't doing something about it."

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Legal expert and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin told Bertinelli that her "speaking out will matter" in the bigger fight.

"It's not over yet," Hostin advised. "It will matter because rape is the most under-reported crime in our country, especially child rape."

The *One Day at a Time *alum opened up last week about her own experience with sexual assault, telling **'s sister publication PEOPLE about her trauma.

Valerie Bertinelli at the Emmys in 2024.

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"I guess because I'm healing from it, it's not so scary anymore," Bertinelli told the outlet. "I can say it out loud. I was sexually assaulted. It doesn't feel like it owns me anymore."

She added, "The very first time I said it out loud to my therapist, I thought, 'I'm going to feel better now.' It got worse before it got better. I maybe ate a little bit more, drank a little bit more. When you stop eating things for comfort, stop drinking alcohol, it exposes your feelings. You can deal with them or not. And I chose to deal with them."**

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC. *Getting Naked* is out now.**

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