The View has apologized to alleged Tiger Woods mistress Rachel Uchitel after Joy Behar called her a “hooker” on Thursday’s show.

“You-ka-tell she’s a hooker,” Behar quipped in a play on the 32-year-old’s name.

“During a discussion on yesterday’s The View about the alleged affair between Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel, Joy Behar made a play on Ms. Uchitel’s name,” an ABC rep said Friday. “This was intended as a joke. We sincerely apologize for the choice of words and for any misimpression the joke may have created.”

After the show aired, Uchitel’s attorney, Gloria Allred, issued a statementcalling the joke “defamatory and highly offensive” and demanding a “retraction.”