Rosie responds to Barbara Walters on Oprah
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- May
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Did any of you catch Barbara Walters on Oprah yesterday? In an hour-long interview, she discussed all the revelations from her new memoir, Audition—a book that I couldn’t have imagined being at all interested in reading a day ago and is now already on my Amazon wish list. I kid you not. It honestly sounds that good.
Who knew Walters had such a fascinating, and at times sordid, personal life? An affair with a married senator—and a black senator at that! A father who attempted suicide! Three failed marriages and a mentally disabled sister! For more on the details of the memoir, check out this USA Today story.
Of course, the first questions on everyone’s mind—including Oprah’s—revolved around The View. Specifically, the tumultuous two-year period beginning with Irvington resident Meredith Vieira’s departure, then the Star Jones saga, and finally Rosie O’Donnell. Walters spent the longest period on Oprah’s couch discussing Rosie, and how the South Nyack often seemed to give their relationship a mother-daughter dynamic.
Rosie used her Ask Ro message board to respond to a lot of the questions raised by Babwa. We’ll recap the key points, along with Ro’s trademark haiku-ish thoughts, after the break.
On Barbara Walters’s assertion that Rosie regretted writing her memoir, “Celebrity Detox,” and didn’t promote it as a result:
i didnt promote it
because the way i left the view
distorted the story
changed the essence
it became very noisy
i wanted to book
the message of it
to b defined by each reader
not by sound bites
i think it is a good – honest book
On Walters’s comment that O’Donnell has rage issues:
WHAT THE HELL R U TALKING ABOUT
[expletive deleted]
DAMN IT
On how Walters still seems to have a lot of affection for O’Donnell, and how she feels in return:
i love her
(Oprah Show photo: George Burns/Harpo Productions; O’Donnell and Walters: AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman)
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