‘The View’ co-host admits she left the talk show before she was fired

While Shepherd could joke about his firing The viewshe was a little more serious during a June episode Sherri.

She explained, “Firing is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just like when I got fired The view, I was sitting there looking in the mirror in my dressing room and said, ‘Oh my God, Lord, what am I going to do?’ Because I did it The view for seven years. I live here. Don’t know. I’m older. I don’t know if Hollywood will remember me. And you know, and I remember a small, still voice saying, “Do you trust me?”

Shepherd remembered that immediately after he left The viewshe got a role in Kevin Hart’s film Ride alongfollowed by an offer to play the wicked stepmother in a Broadway production of Cinderella starring Keke Palmer, and the jobs just kept coming.

“After they let me go, I never fell short of paying my bills, anything. So I tell people, don’t look at getting fired as a bad thing,” the star continued, telling viewers to think of it as God closing the door on one thing and having the excitement to ask, “Okay, what’s next? We’re going to have a good time.”