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New Barbara Walters memoir with “secrets”

By M&C News May 6, 2008, 10:02 GMT

Barbara Walters is releasing a memoir, which she promises will be loaded with juicy “secrets”.

In it, you can read all about her affairs as well as her father’s suicide attempt. USA Today notes, “But her biggest revelation is of a "rocky" affair three decades ago with Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, the first black person elected to the Senate since Reconstruction. Walters, who has been married and divorced three times (all amicable, she says), describes Brooke as "the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming and impossible man." Their affair lasted a few years until both decided, she writes, that they couldn't afford to risk their careers and "wisely but very sadly" stopped seeing each other. Brooke, 88, declined comment.”
Just to give a bit from the book description, “Barbara Walters has spent a lifetime auditioning: for her bosses at the TV networks, for millions of viewers, for the most famous people in the world, and even for her own daughter, with whom she has had a difficult but ultimately quite wonderful and moving relationship. This book, in some ways, is her final audition, as she fully opens up both her private and public lives. In doing so, she has given us a story that is heartbreaking and honest, surprising and fun, sometimes startling, and always fascinating.”
Click here to read more from USA Today. Knopf is the publisher. Read what the NYT says here.

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