Barbara Walters Confesses to Being a !*@%% Vol. Homewrecker

[shannonscrooks]

I have lost all respect for you Babs:

NEW YORK (AP) -- After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant."

Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press.

A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers, Walters says.

At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was a rising star in TV news and co-host of NBC's "Today" show, but would soon jump to ABC News, where she has enjoyed unrivaled success. Her affair with Brooke, which never before came to light, had ended before he lost his bid for a third term in 1978.

Brooke later divorced, and has since remarried. Calls to a listing for Brooke in Miami by The Associated Press were not immediately returned Thursday.

Walters is the guest of Oprah Winfrey to discuss her new memoir, "Audition," which covers her long career in television, as well as her off-camera life. On "Oprah," Walters recounts a phone call from a friend who urged her to stop seeing Brooke.

"He said, 'This is going to come out. This is going to ruin your career,' " then reminded her that Brooke was up for re-election a year later. " 'This is going to ruin him. You've got to break this off.' "

Winfrey asks Walters if she was in love.

"I was certainly -- I don't know -- I was certainly infatuated."

"Infatuated."

"I was certainly involved," Walters says. "He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington."

Also during the program, Walters chokes up while describing the struggles of her older sister Jackie, who was mentally ******ed. Walters confesses that, as a child, she sometimes felt embarrassed by Jackie.

"She stuttered terribly. People made fun of her. People made fun of me," Walters says. "I didn't bring friends home. I felt terribly guilty because she was very loving and I didn't always feel that way."

Jackie Walters died in 1985 of ovarian cancer.

"When I think of her, because she was beautiful and loving and all of that, it makes me cry."

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed

 

[airant23]

YO!

A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers, Walters says.
1-9... 0-6!

Ask about the bruhs.

DF!!!

 

[dagreatj]

Barb's got Jungle Fever who woulda thought

 

[purple face]

She banged James Lipton too

 

[putting in work]

Unexpeted from her.

 

[jbug88]

nice avy Shannon. really, really, like that pick.
My picks were between Rivers (thanks to you), him and Rogers-Cromartie.
Babs had the IR loving going on in the 60's huh?

-J-

 

[ajwill307]

LOL

 

[highrep87]

ahahha

 

[lazyj10]

She always seemed like an equal opportunist.

 

[chichiloves5s]

Originally Posted by ShannonsCrooks

I have lost all respect for you Babs:

 

[703 hwy]

She loves the BBC

 

[million dollar stacks]

 

[eight2one]

just another ****.

 

[gordon gartrelle]

I wonder what her favorite position is/was. Probably as dry as the Mojave desert by now.

http://

 

[ricardo malta]

"I was certainly -- I don't know -- I was certainly infatuated."

 

[ocks]

Ha-whoa I'm Barbara Walters and this is Jungle Fever!

 

[stoneyjax]

Originally Posted by seaner23


do a little sniffing around...word is her and richard pryor did a little something something...paul mooney said it on the howard stern show last year, then next time howard interviewed b. walters she kinda danced around the question.

if true than

that would be the oddest couple ever!

 

[kicks off]

I always thought she was that freaky type.

 

[shortydoowopp]

i'm more suprised he was black than she had an affair...

 

[airant23]

YO! I don't see it as all that of a surprise that it was a black man. I think power and intelligence would be the qualities she valued the most... hehad/has both. She ain't no different... DF!!!

 

[czur1127]

never liked her