Elaine Welteroth leaving 'The Talk'

"It is an implicit grant for anyone, but particularly a young Black woman, to inhabit abstraction on-air wherever our perspectives are mostly underrepresented," Welteroth said successful a statement shared connected Instagram. "It was gratifying to beryllium capable to amusement up arsenic my authentic aforesaid successful beforehand of a unrecorded nationalist assemblage each time successful a satellite arsenic divided arsenic ours and to enactment existent to myself and what I basal for."

Adding, "I came to The Talk to interruption retired of my ain echo enclosure and to articulation a divers formed successful helping to span immoderate of the divides successful our satellite done speech and empathy. I'm arrogant of however I represented myself and my community. But arsenic I ever say: erstwhile the euphony changes, truthful indispensable your dance! I volition miss my talented co-hosts and unit and I privation them the precise best. Thanks to each those who tuned successful each day. I'm excited to proceed these indispensable conversations successful my enactment and to stock my upcoming originative projects soon."

Welteroth has not said what her adjacent task whitethorn be.

Welteroth's book, "More Than Enough: Claiming Space For Who You Are No Matter What They Say," became a New York Times bestseller.