Just over a year after joining daytime talk show The View, Candace Cameron Bure has announced that she’s leaving her position as co-host.
At the beginning of Thursday’s episode, Bure, 40, held back tears as she told the audience she was departing the show. According to the former Full House star, she simply had too many commitments to keep up with her co-hosting duties.
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“It wasn’t an easy decision, but before I started The View, I had already had my commitments to Fuller House and my work with the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries,” she explained. “And because of the success of those, my commitments have become even greater with those shows.”
Her family — she shares three children with former NHLer Valeri Bure — is also a huge priority for Bure.
“The commute of going west coast to east coast every single week for me has been tough on me and hard for my family as well,” she said. “And I want to make sure that I’m able to spend as much time with my children and invest in all the projects that I do to the fullest extent.”
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Bure didn’t provide a specific date of departure but thanked her co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg along with former View matriarch Barbara Walters.
Ultimately, Bure is searching for more “me” time.
“It’s a lot,” she added. “I’m trying to be superwoman and I’m going to not try anymore.”
Bure, who found Christianity in her 20s, frequently found herself in arguments stemming from her conservative points of view. She would often clash with View co-host Raven-Symone (who announced in October she was leaving the show by the end of the year) over her beliefs on same-sex marriage.
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