The View audience shocked by hosts getting ‘up close & personal’ with crowd in ‘raw’ 30-minute off-camera talk [Video]

THE VIEW audience has received a special treat from the hosts during a recent taping – an intimate chat that was not filmed for the show.

In an off-camera moment during the April 17 taping, the hosts, which included Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, took questions from the audience.

While the pre-taped A Different World reunion was airing, the warm-up comic asked questions to the hosts that the crowd had submitted, an insider revealed to The U.S. Sun.

“The hosts continued to have a very long talk with the audience that was very up close and personal,” the source said.

The “raw” 30-minute conversation included topics about relationships, life struggles, …