Joy Behar’s Mysterious ‘Dizzy Spells’ Have Loved Ones ‘Terrified’: ‘No One Is Taking It Lightly’

Joy Behar has been making light of her dizzy spells on The View, but friends are urging the daytime talk show host to overhaul her lifestyle choices before something terrible happens.

“No one is taking this as lightly as Joy is,” an insider tells Closer. “At her age, [this] can be a sign of something very serious and they want her to stop shrugging it off.”

On the Monday, July 6 episode, the 83-year-old comedian shared that she’s been getting acupuncture to help with the dizziness, per People.

“I don’t know what it is,” she said of the source of her ailment, before joking, “between the Botox, the Ozempic and the acupuncture, I’m more full of needles than a drug addict.”

Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin even revealed that Behar sometimes has to be escorted to her seat.

“They’d love to see her slow down, but she keeps insisting that she’s fine and says it’s all just a case of people overreacting and assuming that she’s ‘old’ and can’t keep up,” says the insider. “No one is saying she should put herself out to pasture, but there’s no denying she puts a huge amount of pressure on herself.”

Behar, however, “knows there’s an endless stream of women that are younger than she is that would love to take her spot and she’s not going to make it easy for them,” the insider reveals. “Everyone is convinced that’s why she went on Ozempic because she certainly wasn’t overweight. Clearly, she just wanted to fit the Hollywood mold.”

The same goes for her Botox treatments, adds the insider.

“It’s all aimed at chasing this younger version of herself, but at what cost?” wonders the insider. “She puts on a good show when she’s on air but behind the scenes, it’s no secret she’s struggling and her loved ones are terrified that these dizzy spells she’s having are warning signs she’s purposely ignoring because she doesn’t want to accept that she is aging.”