By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

It was The View you never thought you’d see.

"I say this genuinely,” Barbara Walters said. “I am so happy to welcome back Star Jones!”

And with that, the controversial TV personality came back to the show that made her a big name, six years after a stormy exit.

A happy Jones said, "A new couch. You've got two black girls. Sherri Shepherd and I are not the same person. Elisabeth Hasselbeck had more children. Joy Behar got married!"

As Walters brought up the controversy of 2006 -- when Jones said she was leaving, when in truth, her contract had actually not been picked up for another season -- Jones tried to keep things light.

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"Are we really going to go here, Barbara? Do we care at this point?! I honestly don't," Jones said. “It was ugly. It was a bad emotional time. Nasty things were being said in the media. I made the decision that I wanted to go out on my own terms.

"I had eight fantastic years here -- one was 'Eh' -- I came back to congratulate you on all you accomplished; I hope you congratulate me on what I accomplished," said Jones, who’s been seen on Celebrity Apprentice and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? in the years since she left The View.

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There was also the lingering controversy over Star’s 2003 weight-loss surgery, as Jones -- who weighed more than 300 pounds when she elected to have the procedure -- vehemently denied having anything done, though her ruse was subsequently ex