I will beat her downBarbara Walters, now nearing 80, has released a memoir called Audition. In it she talks honestly about her personal life as well as her professional one, even admitting an affair with a married senator during the 70s. This obviously created a bit of an uproar in said senator's life, but that's nothing compared to her former co-star's reaction to being outed as a liar for denying having had gastric bypass surgery (she lost 160 lbs. in 3 years).
Barbara claims that Star's refusal to admit she had surgery placed an unfair burden on her co-stars. "It meant we virtually had to lie for Star, especially when she said again and again on the air that her weight loss was due primarily to portion control and Pilates." Barbara also criticized Star for promoting companies that gave her wedding gifts on-air.
Well, Star has always hated Barbara for the way she feels she was summarily dismissed from The View and she's not about to take this lying down. Tucking all her extra skin back into her Spanx and told Us Weekly, “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.” Such. A. Bitch.
