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Asked if she ever watches the show that helped make her famous, she tells TV Guide in a new interview that she does not. Reynolds also reveals that she hasn't spoken to her former boss, Barbara Walters, since Reynolds left the show last summer.
"I haven't spoken to anyone from the show," she says. "I sometimes get e-mails from Elisabeth Hasselbeck, but that's because we had a very personal relationship."
Pressed as to what Hasselbeck has to say (the interviewer wonders if the youngest member of the daytime chatfest is asking for "Heeelp!"), Reynolds, 44, replies: "No. I would never disclose that. That's one thing about me – I'm a pretty loyal person and extremely discreet. Mother is watching at all times, and I need to make her proud."
And though Reynolds, now set to launch her own Court TV show this summer, has yet to see The View since she stepped out and Rosie O'Donnell stepped in, she does say of her old homebase, "I've obviously kept up. It's very difficult not to keep up with it if you read newspapers or magazines or do any work on the Internet."
With her perspective, she says, "I kind of go back to the fact that it's a different show. The show I got to do is different than what it is now. I imagine that it works. Their level of success – I'm happy for them, and I hope they're happy for me."
At the time of Reynolds's departure, the words were not so kind, with some barbs exchanged between Walters (speaking on The View) and Reynolds (talking to PEOPLE.)
"The way that it played out was not easy because I take away from those nine years a very positive experience," Reynolds now says. "I helped create a genre, which was fantastic. I loved my time there. The thing that I don't like the most is the take-away that everybody talks about – the negativity. For nine years it was not [negative]."
But, she adds, "I don't think it serves me well to dwell on what happened in the past. It's time for me to move on."
