Inside the New Barbara Walters Memoir!
Posted May 07, 2008 1:20:00 PM
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As BARBARA WALTERS makes headlines for her new memoir Audition, we take you inside the tell-all where the newswoman talks about her love life, her "View" co-hosts and even TOM CRUISE!
One part of her book that's been getting attention is the revelation of her affair in the '70s with the then-married Senator EDWARD BROOKE, and on page 256 she opens up about their secret trysts and something he once said to her.
"Sometimes when he said that I was the oldest woman he had ever been with, I thought of telling him: 'Oh yeah? Well you are the blackest man I have ever been with.' But the truth is, it didn't matter."
Meanwhile, on page 259 she goes on to say that she was somewhat okay with their relationship ending. "He had been so much a part of my life and my fantasies. However, the truth is that after years of hiding it, it was also a relief."
Barbara, who's been married and three times, writes that with her second husband, producer LEE GUBER, she "felt trapped and restless. I just wasn't cut out for marriage."
But that didn't stop her from saying "I do" a third time in 1986 to producer MERV ADELSON. "I didn't even have a dress," she writes of their wedding. "I borrowed one from a friend, swallowed a Valium (which I never take) and more or less zonked my way through the wedding."
Barbara also dives right into all of the behind the scenes happenings at "The View" and her former co-hosts STAR JONES and ROSIE O'DONNELL.
On page 558 she writes: "Rosie once more called me a liar who betrayed her .... mixed up in the criticisms were protestations of love. It was such a see-saw of emotions that I didn't know how to answer her."
Barbara also doesn't hold back when talking about Star, writing on page 553: "I still feel it might have been easier for her to find a new position if she had left the program in the graceful way we had suggested."
Despite the many controversies addressed in the book, Barbara does lighten things up when writing about interviewing the one and only Tom Cruise.
"While Tom wants to be open and candid, he has learned over the years to deflect by laughing at any question that makes him
uncomfortable," she writes on page 498. "He is one of the nicest people I know, even though I usually walk away from one of our interviews
wondering what, if anything, I got."
Audition is on sale now.
