‘The View’ Star Sara Haines Under Fire for Questioning Patrick Clancy’s Remarriage: ‘Deranged’

Sara Haines is facing backlash after questioning Patrick Clancy‘s decision to remarry following the deaths of his three children, who were killed by his ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, in January 2023.

During a discussion on The View on Tuesday, September 22, cohosts Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Star Jones and Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on Patrick’s recent 60 Minutes interview, in which he discussed forgiveness and his relationship with his late children’s mother, 36. The interview also featured Patrick’s wife, Rachel Danis, a fertility doctor. The couple married in April and revealed they are starting a family together.

“What bothers me is that he talks about forgiving [Lindsay], which I love, but he focuses on that and never jumps to what so many people struggled with. How did the marital love end so quickly when you admit openly your wife got sick?” Haines asked in a clip that’s since gone viral.

Haines then said she hoped her own husband would stand by her if she committed the same crime. “But I would hope, you know, in sickness and in health … I would hope that my husband wouldn’t sit there and just move right along,” Haines continued.

Hostin asked Haines whether Patrick’s remarriage “bothers” her. “Some people need love and they need to fill themselves again. I’m not shaming him on any of that. I just don’t know why we skipped over all the marital things,” Haines said.

Pointing out that Patrick has said Lindsay never asked for his forgiveness, Griffin commented that if she had committed the horrific crime, she would apologize, saying, “What did I do? I am so sorry I took these three children from us.”

Haines’ comments drew a wave of criticism on social media after clips of the discussion were shared online.

“Women fought for generations to be taken seriously. Then Sara Haines went on national television and asked why a father didn’t stay married to the woman who killed his children,” one X user wrote. “Men aren’t the ones setting women back.”

“This ladies and gentleman is the epitome of mental illness on full display. Sarah Haines is an absolute disgrace. — No, I don’t know who she is or give a [expletive,]” another person wrote on X.

“I’m sorry but if you kill your own children – you deserve a divorce,” another wrote online. “People have gotten divorced for far less but to expect your spouse to stay by your side after you slaughter your children one by one and have never apologized – Sara Haines is a [expletive] moron. There I said it.”

One X user asked if Haines is “stupid or worse?” “Doesn’t she even have HALF a neuron to know why Patrick Clancy divorced murderer lindsay clancy???? Hellooooo: she viciously killed hids [sic] three children, THE VICTIMS:Cora, Dawson and baby Callan. Have respect, absurd, deranged woman.”

As Globe previously reported, Patrick also told 60 Minutes that he considered taking his own life after the murders.

Lindsay, 36, has admitted to killing her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, but her lawyers argued that she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors argued she understood her actions were wrong, but the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict and a mistrial was declared on September 4.

Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will retry Lindsay for murder.

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