Star Jones Slams Barbara Walters As An "Adulterer" In The "Sunset Of Her Life;" Barbara "Will Not Dignify" Comment With Response

Update: Barbara's rep has responded to Star's war of words, telling UsMagazine.com, ""I will not dignify this with a comment. Barbara's written words say it all!"

Original Post: In her new book, Audition, Barbara Walters opens up about Star Jones, saying she lied to protect Star's secret about her gastric bypass and that Star became a bridezilla as her wedding to Al Reynolds approached.

"She was clinically obese," Barbara said of Star on Oprah yesterday (video below). "She could barely walk onto the set." But when Star chose to keep her gastric bypass operation secret, Barbara claimed "The View" co-hosts "had to then lie on the set everyday, because she said it was portion control and pilates."

Barbara also claimed that Star "wanted the biggest extravaganza wedding — she wanted to be a princess" and that she wanted to promote her wedding to get things paid for.

Today, in an exclusive statement to UsMagazine.com, Star Jones is hitting back, slamming Barbara as an adulteress in the "sunset of her life." Her full statement:

It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," Jones told Us. "It speaks to her true character."

Watch Barbara discuss Star on Oprah yesterday:

From ABC, 5/6

In the book, Barbara also comes out publicly for the first time about her 1970s affair with married Senator Edward Brooke.

Comments

[TERRYKEITH4]

Hooray for BW for being a role model for all of us in the "sunset" of our lives as Star Bones puts it. Wonder what Star Bones will be doing in the "sunset: of her life...hmmm? Fighting with a Bro' on the "down low"? Or just straight lace washed up!? Shut up Star! We ain't buying it. BW gave you an opportunity that many 'Liz Hasselbacks would die for and you blew it. Wonder what book readers would say about you if you actually told the truth about yourself....Hmmmm? And you don't even realise that while you're huffing and puffing on BW's book you're making me want to go out and buy it. I don't own any of your books, and it's not because I can't though. I'm glad they kicked you off the view. You are not representing Black Women. We don't all think that crazy phoney stuff you think. Good bye Black chick. And stop using Bw to keep your name and "loooking like a bug" face in the media.

[Orikinla]

Americans are the most shameless humans on earth!

[TheSecularist]

It's amazing how the rich never have enough money. Barbara Walters is shamelessly victimizing the wife of her co-adulterer (a second time) by publicly humiliating her. Like Geraldo Rivera when he humiliated Bette Midler in his book, Walters is disgusting. Way back when, she used to have some dignity, Now she's no better than those actors who dig into their family closets for some publicity generating secret in hopes of reviving their careers.

[BHall]

I'm glad Barbara wrote a candid book. Her story shows how are we've all comes. As for Star Jones, her life and career are never going to improve until she owns some of her history. She destroyed her career with her unwillingess to be honest and with her greedy wedding fiasco, but continues to blame others for her downfall. She has to either own that, and stop blaming others, or simply retire from public life. Get over it, Star!

[MJD615]

Star Jones is a self-serving opportunist. Her opinion doesn't make a particle of difference to me. Go back to obscurity where you belong, Star.

[SaulGoode]

Now Baba Wawa is concerned with dignity, huh?

She's beyond parody.

[TrevorAlan]

Beyond Journalistic integrity, isn't there some degree of illegal payola Jones was engaging in by name dropping to get free stuff?

[MA]

Twuu wongs don't make a wite.....

[mollywood]

I feel sorry for Star. I didn't even know who she was unil a couple of years ago. I don't watch daytime TV. Nor, do I read gossip columns. But, for her to come out and say that about BW.......shows how truly desperate she is. What kind of person lies about being treated for obesity? Who cares if she had surgery (the easy way to treat compulsive overeating)? I wonder how she deals with her compulsion to shove food in now? That's got to be one miserable woman.......fat or skinny!

[tombollocks]

You're still fat and talentless on the inside, Star.

Even though Barbara wrote about her affair, it's still her business. To each his (her) own.

[SaulGoode]

"Even though Barbara wrote about her affair, it's still her business. To each his (her) own."

Ummm...wow...it unfortuntaely became public business when she decided to broadcast it. She is a shameless, money-grubbing, hypocritical hack.

She knew that he "affair" with Brooks would be the attention getter for her book. She could have respected the right of privacy for his family, but she was more interested in the money.

She is shameless. i can't believe there are people defending this idiot.

[AxelDC]

It's amazing that a woman can lose 200 pounds and look WORSE!

[KMan1]

I can't believe BW. She couldn't right a book without embarrassing others?

[Janel]

I give BW credit for being a wonderful interviewer and for blazing the trail for women in broadcasting, but I must say all the attention her book is receiving is overblown.

I watched both the Oprah and Charlie Gibson interviews and was touched by some of the experiences that Barbara recounted, but I cringed when she talked about Star and named the men in her life. This was sensationalism at best, and I wonder why she feels the need to bare her soul by embarrassing others. I won't buy the book.

[Stolentime]

Oh Puleeease! Who is she to be considered Ms. Moral Compass?

[Lisette]

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[Flick08]

Everything Babbs said about Star is true. She was a bridezilla who married a obviously gay man.

Unfortunately, what Star said about Babbs is also true as well. I thought from the beginning that this 'confessional' was tasteless and trashy and beneath Ms. Walters. She definitely went down in my estimation of her.

[BeSpoke]

I am very DISAPPOINTED that Ms. Walters and (h)Oprah denigrated the institution of marriage and shamed families all to CAT it up that throwing their legs up in in the bed of married men was OKAY as long as they paid for their share of breakfast following it. BOTH HAVE BECOME EGOTISTICAL MONSTERS and the public should not applaud their whoring ways.