‘They’re making me quit’: Barbara Walters’ girlfriend Lisa Ling says the late-night TV icon got off her seat on The View
The late Barbara Walters got off her seat on The View — the show she created — in 2014, according to her friend Lisa Ling.
Ling, 49, speaks with mowing He said Monday that Walters — who died at age 93 last December — revealed to her on her last day filming ABC’s Round Table Chat in 2014.
Ling, who is now a CNN correspondent, told the outlet that she “has not shared this (information) with anyone.”
Ling said that on the last day of filming, she said to Walters off-camera about her impending retirement, “Barbara, in a couple of months, are you going to be hanging out in a hammock in Tahiti?”
Laing said Walters responded to her in a whisper, “They’re making me quit.”
The late Barbara Walters got off her seat on The View — the show she created — in 2014, according to her friend Lisa Ling.
Walters, who died at her home in New York City on Dec. 30, created the primary ABC in 1997, and served as host and producer until 2014.
The View was the culmination of an unparalleled career in media for Major Walters, who in 1976 became the first female anchor of an evening news program, for ABC.
She then began hosting the main news channel 20/20 in 1979, and appeared on the newsmagazine until 2004.
Despite the allegedly harsh circumstances behind her parting from the ABC series, the broadcast journalism icon was welcomed to her final show in May 2014 by some of the news business’ brightest stars.
Among them were Ling, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Roberts, Katie Couric, Connie Chung, Hoda Kotb, and others.
Winfrey said, “I had to be here for your last show, to celebrate you, because of what you meant to me.” You literally meant the world to me.
Like everyone else, I want to thank you for being a pioneer and everything that word means. This means being the first. The first to knock down the door in the room, to break down the barriers, to clear the way we all walk. Thank you for that. And I thank you for the courage it took me every day to get up and keep doing it.
Walters said in response to the honor: This is a legacy. This is my legacy. And thank you all.
Walters, who died at her home in New York City on Dec. 30, created the primary ABC in 1997, and served as host and producer until 2014.
CNN’s Ling told the outlet that she “didn’t share this (information) with anyone” about revealing the icon to her. Photo last month in Austin, Texas
Walters was seen chatting with President Joe Biden on the show in 2014 before leaving the show
