Watch: Meghan McCain's Hair Don'ts are Also Leaving 'The View'

Controversial conservative pundit Meghan McCain will be leaving ABC's daily talk show "The View" on July 30, the Associated Press reported.

McCain joined the show four years ago. At the time she said, "It's such a privilege to be on the show. It's such an iconic show. It's so iconic to be in this chair that [Elisabeth Hasselbeck] made so great. I watched Elisabeth in college, and to be the conservative on this show is something I take very seriously, and I'm excited to bring a different perspective to the show."

"I'm just going to rip the band-aid off," she said on Thursday's show, the Daily Beast reports. "I am here to tell all of you, my wonderful co-hosts and the viewers at home that this is going to be my last season here at�'The View.'"

She added: "This was not an easy decision. COVID has changed the world for all of us. And it changed the way I'm living my life."

That perspective, though, was fraught with drama over her tenure, including clashes with her co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines. "A source says that McCain made the decision herself to depart and that recent rumblings about on-set feuds had nothing to do with her exit," Variety reports.

"McCain's conservative takes were magnets for attention on Twitter with her clips constantly catching fire on social media. Recently, McCain's latest on-air feud with Goldberg went viral in June, garnering a substantial amount of tabloid attention. The tabloids would constantly speculate on McCain's behavior and feelings on-set, which she frequently clapped back at on her own social media accounts."

She concluded her exit announcement with: "So seriously, thank you from the absolute bottom of my heart, and I will still be here another month, so if you guys want to fight a little bit more, we have four more weeks."

The announcement of her departure overshadowed the ongoing criticism of her evolving looks over her tenure, which led her to say on Wednesday's show: "I'm not a fashion person at all."

She has, nonetheless, displayed a dizzying variety of unconventional hairstyles, People Magazine reported in April.

"In the past few months, McCain has�rocked a variety of unique hairstyles�– large space buns and hairdos with gems and glitter – during her appearance on the daytime talk show, leading some social media users to speculate that her glam squad "hates her" and that they have been "expressing their contempt" through the star's tresses."

But her DC-based hair stylist Carmen Currie told New York Magazine's The Cut there has been no sabotage going on. Currie assured the Cut that her intentions are pure and not at all passive-aggressive. "I'm not slapping something on her and being like, 'Take�THAT!,'" Currie laughs told the Cut. "I'm not telling her what to do all the time, it's not like that at all. I want her to feel comfortable,�I want her to feel confident with what I'm doing, and I want her to like it overall, and she does. I think it shows, and that's part of what people are picking up on."

McCain agreed in a tweet. "People have a lot to say about me in general but in regards to my hair and makeup... I'm just having fun switching up, playing around and experimenting. It's covid and I just had a baby, let a bitch live!"

But on Twitter, many still found her looks worth comment.