‘They’re making me give up’: Barbara Walters’ friend Lisa Ling says late TV icon was muscled out of her seat on The View
The late Barbara Walters was muscled out of her seat on The View – the present she created – in 2014, in line with her friend Lisa Ling.
Ling, 49, talking with The Cut Monday, mentioned that Walters – who died at 93 this previous December – made the revelation to her on her final day filming the ABC chat roundtable in 2014.
Ling, who’s presently a reporter for CNN, informed the outlet that she had ‘by no means shared this [information] with anybody.’
Ling mentioned that on the final day of filming, she mentioned to Walters off-camera of her looming retirement, ‘Barbara, in a pair of months, are you going to be lounging in a hammock in Tahiti?’
Ling mentioned Walters responded to her in a whisper, ‘They’re making me give up.’
The late Barbara Walters was muscled out of her seat on The View – the present she created – in 2014, in line with her friend Lisa Ling