Bette Midler: Sex With Geraldo 'Nothing To Write Home About' (VIDEO)

Bette Midler appeared on HLN's "Joy Behar Show" Tuesday night and took questions from Facebook fans. Asked about her infamous affair with Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, Midler said that sex with the 'stache was anything but divine.

When reminded that Geraldo had written about having sex with her in his autobiography, Midler cringed.

"I wouldn't write about having sex with Geraldo. Ew!" she told Behar. "I had sex with Geraldo but I don't think I would write about it. It was nothing to write home about!"

Midler defended her move, reminding Joy that "he was cute in those days." She did admit, however, that "he's not adorable anymore."

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In a 1992 Ladies' Home Journal interview, Midler opened up about the affair:

As for Geraldo, who wrote about their brief sexual encounter in his steamy autobiography, Exposing Myself, Midler declares--"Oh, he was a slimeball! If I had known then that he was going to do this twenty years later, I never would have given him the time of day." (In truth, Geraldo speaks well of her. He writes admiringly of Bette's voluptuous figure and sexual appetite.) "Actually, he was grotesque," she continues. "I was very young--well, relatively young--and he and his producer pushed me into my own bathroom and broke two poppers under my nose and started to grope me. And I kept going, 'What is this? What is this? What's going on?' My friends say, of course, he was such a charmer, right after that I had to go to bed with him," she says, laughing. "He pursued me all the way to Oklahoma. I think he was doped up. I think he was doing a lot of drugs in those days. I don't mind saying this. I really think he was."

Comments

[MrMusicFlood]

10:02 AM on 11/19/2011

hilarious!

[allyoucaneatbaby]

02:14 AM on 11/19/2011

i remember geraldo was at that cheech and chong roast or whatever and said that he and cheech has "smoked weed in every country in the western world" and as cheech nodded and said "its true"

[SmoothMineral]

09:25 AM on 11/18/2011

""Actually, he was grotesque," she continues. "I was very young--well, relatively young--and he and his producer pushed me into my own bathroom and broke two poppers under my nose and started to grope me."

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like rape?

[jclaireburke]

09:10 PM on 11/17/2011

I'm not a Geraldo fan, but I'm also not a fan of being mean. Bette was being mean and it was uncalled for. Even though I'm a woman, I still don't agree with the double standard that it's "funny" for a woman to make fun of how a man was in bed when it is off limits for a man to make fun of how a woman was in bed.

[Goliadkin]

01:52 PM on 11/18/2011

I agree in general. But for Geraldo I make an exception.

[sdavidweaver]

08:48 PM on 11/17/2011

Well, Bette's not so adorable anymore either...

[spookyraven]

03:46 PM on 11/17/2011

I love Bette Midler period

[chucknchar t]

10:27 AM on 11/17/2011

Nothing to write home about? You write home after sexual encounters? What did you want Geraldo to do, marry you? It was what it was and a lot of times ladies are impressed by a profession of never ending love and a big rock? Right, lady, at least you can look back and not regret not living life.

[astroup123]

11:52 AM on 11/17/2011

Sounds like Chuck has some problems with the ladies!

[chucknchar t]

03:54 PM on 11/17/2011

Not at all, just know some of them well, they are not above the law, it takes two.

[MrMusicFlood]

10:01 AM on 11/19/2011

She was unimpressed with Geraldo ... why would she want to marry him? That's your insane gender stereotyping calling.

[chucknchar t]

10:26 PM on 11/19/2011

Does she have sex with all the guys she's not impressed with? Bete knew Geraldo would mention her in his book and maybe she's a little embarassed by her promiscuity in her youth and all women are trained to want marriage and a big rock.

[TaurusRose]

04:33 AM on 10/28/2011

Lucky lucky Geraldo

[loisdiamond2]

03:33 AM on 10/28/2011

I love Bette Midler ! When will she bring back her beautiful music?? Today's so called singers can't hang candle to Bette !!

[MyGuyO]

03:08 AM on 10/28/2011

Now, that's funny.

[General Public]

01:02 AM on 10/28/2011

Gross. Seriously. I'm talking about Geraldo Rivera of course. Ugh, no wonder he got hired by Fox News.

[SUPER16]

09:23 PM on 10/27/2011

Hey, I remember when Bette was a hottie!! Damn, I'm old.

[MyGuyO]

03:08 AM on 10/28/2011

In her younger days living in Hawaii?

[Theatrixnyc]

10:25 AM on 10/28/2011

Anyone that stands up for others less fortunate, and who will gather all of her friends together, and find experts in their fields that share her belief system of helping others, to help her to clean up parks filled with garbage and restore them for ALL people, from every walk of life in New York City, is, well, beautiful and sexy. (and pretty crafty and smart, to keep NYRP going, with bigger and better results, each year, 16 years Strong...as legit as a Charity gets, with .82 of every $1 going toward environmental and community based programs. www.nyrp.org)

[repugnicansfearme]

09:05 PM on 10/27/2011

The way I heard the story, it was Geraldo, Bette, and Brit Hume, in bed.

[liberalluke]

08:54 PM on 10/27/2011

These 3 has beens may want a 3some soon.

[Nikk Neurosis]

09:52 PM on 10/27/2011

Umm...does anyone else not think that the two of them getting it on is probably the most disgusting thing anyone could ever imagine? This story isn't news it's the worst kind of pornography.

[JohnFromCensornati]

11:06 AM on 11/17/2011

You haven't imagined M&M Bachmann? Definitely worse, but maybe it never really happens.