If I wanted companionship, I’d get a dog.

NYDailyNews: ‘The View’ host Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s lesbian theory: Older women just couldn’t get a man

Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks a lot of older lesbians would have turned out straight … if they could only land a man.

The co-host of “The View” said older women who have led heterosexual lives are choosing same-sex partners because men their age are chasing younger women.

“All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one,” Hasselbeck said on Tuesday.

Joy Behar, a co-host of the show, immediately blasted the 33-year-old, calling her late-blooming lesbian claim “ridiculous.”

“Being gay is not just holding hands and walking through the tulips,” Behar said. “I don’t think that you suddenly wake up and say, ‘You know, I think I want to do that.’ You wanted to do it; you were just trapped in a system that said ‘get married.’ “

Hasselbeck then said that women might turn to homosexuality later in life not for sex, but companionship.