It sounds as though Barbara/ABC didn't live up to their end of the deal. What vile thing did Star say/do when she announced she was leaving the show?
Star had known since last fall when they didn't renew her contract. Baba and The View "people" gave her all this time to find something else to save face.
Baba Wahwah also said that she had talked the other powers-that-be besides herself into the extra time in hopes that Star's ratings with the audience would improve ("time to redeeem herself"), but they didn't.
Star was miffed because Baba intro'ed Rosie O as a new co-host "right in front of" Star when they were at the Daytime Emmy awards, seated on the front row.
So, Star being the diva Star that she thinks she is, got Baba back by going out there Tuesday (I didn't see or hear it, TG) on The View and saying she wouldn't be back in the fall, when the P-T-B had not scheduled an official announcement of it until the end of this week, like Friday.
It just makes it look like everyone's bailing at once (*bwahahaha*) and Baba prolly doesn't like that very much.
Oh, then after she did that and PO'ed everybody, she went on some radio talk shows and did at least one print interview (People mag) and told them all that she "felt like she had been fired."
Gee, I wonder why. Non-renewal of a contract usually is the same thing, mmmm mmm Ms Jones-Reynolds without the hyphen.