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The View: Behind the Table

Alyssa Farah Griffin Opens Up About Infant Son’s Emergency Surgery: ‘Hardest Thing' In My Life

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa Farah Griffin sits down with executive producer Brian Teta to share about her infant son Justin’s emergency surgery. She opens up about the terrifying experience after her nearly three‑month‑old underwent an emergency procedure, reveals how he’s doing now, and explains why the experience was the hardest thing she’s ever been through. Alyssa also weighs in on Tucker Carlson’s comments explaining why he broke away from President Trump, shares who she believes holds the real power in the Republican Party right now, and explains why she says the best way to deal with online trolls is to give them no thought at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.9

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0:07.0

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0:10.3

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0:12.6

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0:13.3

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0:16.7

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0:18.7

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0:20.2

Okay, it is Monday. I am here with the lovely, the radiant, Alyssa Farah Griffin. Hello.

0:25.4

Good morning. Happy Monday or afternoon as of one minute ago.

0:28.4

After morning. We're into it now.

0:35.6

The show just ended. We're up in the studios. And we're going to talk about something that happened to you this weekend. That's really, really scary. I mean, prefaces by saying everything's okay. And that's the good news. But you went something with your son last, Ruth's something with your son last week. Tell us what happened. Yeah, so I shared with you in advance,

0:55.3

but absolutely no one else. My son ended up needing a major operation. I'm actually not going to get

1:00.7

into the details only because I will just turn into a puddle talking about it, but he had to get

1:05.1

a surgery this weekend. So we spent the weekend in the ICU with him. And I really, usually I would have at least told Sarah

1:12.8

to just to have somebody, like if something was going on in my personal life that was weighing on me,

1:17.5

but I felt like incapacitated. Like I last week was going through the motions and just in prayer

1:23.5

knowing that he had this procedure ahead of him. And thank the Lord, it went beyond well. The doctor said

1:29.9

he's doing even better than expected, hitting every milestone. He's going to be great. He'll never

1:35.6

know in his life other than that we told him that he had this. There'll never be signs or anything.

1:41.4

And it was, I mean, it's the hardest thing I've probably ever been through in my

1:45.4

life, honestly, if I think about it, because you know this as a father, and I did not know it

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