“The View”'s Sunny Hostin still tracks her adult children's phones: 'The phone I pay for comes with a tracker'

Hostin said she also digitally tracks "my au pair, who's not even my au pair."

The View star Sunny Hostin watched Donald Trump's every move with her pair of courtroom binoculars, and she's doing the same when it comes to keeping tabs on her adult children.

During a Monday morning Hot Topics discussion about parents monitoring their grown kids' cell phone activity, the cohost and Summer on Highland Beach author elaborated on her insistence on using an app to survey her family's whereabouts.

"I have an 18-year-old about to go to college," Hostin said of her daughter, Paloma, who graduated from high school last week. "When my son [Gabriel] was 18 and about to go to college, he said, 'Oh, so I'm going to take the tracker off.' My response was, 'Are you getting a new phone? Because the phone I pay for comes with a tracker.'"

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Hostin suggested that she understood why some might find the insistence to be odd, so she listed her reasoning.

"It's not just that I'm stalking him. My mother is on this Life360 [app]. Remember those commercials? 'I've fallen and I can't get up?' If my mother falls, I know she fell. My dad lives in Florida, he is on it," Hostin continued, even going as far as to say "my au pair, who's not even my au pair" is on the app — whatever that means.

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"My kids are on it, [my husband] Manny and I are on it," she said. "If the kids are concerned about where we are, they see our location too. It's a family circle. I think it's very important. There are also driving speeds. So, if I see that Paloma is driving easy, I'm like, 'Hey, good morning!' It's a safety precaution, because we're living in precarious times."

Hostin's insistence on tracking Gabriel, 21, might come in handy, as she can now see if he answered Sherri Shepherd's thirsty call for him to come clean her swimming pool.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.

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