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Over the last two decades,View Titles for the drama among the hosts, both on the screen and behind the scenes. In one instance, two stars of the show had a behind-the-scenes exposure that was so intense, the producers of the show still talk about it today. Read on to know what has led toRosie O'DonnellandBarbara WaltersHave a fighter in the dressing roomViewAnd where their relationship stands now.
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O'Donnell slammed Donald Trump at an episode of 2006.
InRamin SeoodehThe 2019 book,Ladies that punch: the explosive inside the view (Going throughVanity fair), O'Donnell spoke of a 2006 registration in which she talked aboutDonald TrumpManipulation of a scandal of a pageant.Tara ConnerThe Miss USA reign, had been captured using drugs and drinking minor. Asco-owner of the organization of Miss Universe (which includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA), Trump organized a press conference announcing that he had decided to let connerkeep your title If she went in detoxification. Conner, who had not known before the press conference what he was going to say, cried with relief.
This angerO'Donnell, who said she thought that Trump used the struggles to conn to gain advertising for himself and throw themselves as a benevolent chief. "So Donald Trump is again in the news. Because his showThe apprentice Starts again in January, he held a great press conference to see if he would allow Miss U.S.A.-Such a prestigious title, "said O'DonnellViewthe next day.
O'Donnell then criticized Trump's personal life, while immenting it. "Listening, this guy acts on a multitude of levels," she said. "It's moral authority? Leave the first woman, had a connection. Left the second woman, had a connection." When he was married to his first wife,Ivana Trump, hedeceived on her withMarla Maples, who became his second woman. "Had children twice," she continued. "But is it the moral compass for 20 years in America?"
The co-owner has also gone after Trump as a business man, saying that he did not succeed because he "inherited a lot of money" and "bankrupt".
O'Donnell also clarified that she expected that she was waiting for Trump of reprisals. "Here is a trial," she says on the air. "He will sue me, but he will be bankrupt of that time, then I will not have to worry."
Walters tried to smooth things with Trump.
Just after the recording is completed, producerBill Geddie received a phone call from Trump. He stated that Trump was angry specifically on O'Donnell's comments on his finances. "I never tabled for bankruptcy!" The future president said, according to Geddie. Although it is true that Trump has never personally deposited for bankruptcy, many of itsCompanies have brought bankruptcy And close over the years. While Geddie apologized, Trump told that the coasts of O'Donnell were "all of fun", told him that Trump told him that he had spoken to his lawyers to continue the program.
Walters, who was on vacation withJudy Sheindlin (A.K.A. Judge Judy) When the episode in question was disseminated, was concerned about a trial and asked Geddie to organize a three-way call with Trump. (Geddie said Walters and Trump were "good friends" at the time.) There are different stories about the way Walters talked about O'Donnell on the phone, but byLadies who hitShe told Trump thatViewwould make a statement clarifying its financial history when it was back at work.
This did not prevent Trump from getting publicly to O'Donnell, however. Trump spoke of her to several media, includingPeople, the caller "a real loser". Other insults elsewhere included "unattractive" and "stupid". Their quarrel has continued for years.
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Walters made a statement on the show when she returned from vacation.
During a January 2007 record of the show (Going throughToday), Walters made a statement clarifying the comments of bankruptcy.
"ABC asked me just to clarify things, and I will quote:" Donald Trump has never tabled for personal bankruptcy, "she said." Several of his casino companies have filed for Bankruptcies. They are bankrupt now. '
She added that, despite what Trump said, she had never said anything derogatory to the O'Donnell and remains neutral in the situation. It specifically addressed Trump's claim to the associated press she did not want O'DonnellViewAt all, saying that it was not true. "She brought a new vitality to this show and evaluations to prove," said Walters of his colleague.
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But O'Donnell still felt "betrayed" by Walters talking to Trump "behind [his] back. »
O'Donnell, who had been on vacation during this taping, was angry with Walters. When she came back, the tension between them came to a head in a cloakroom fight.
Geddie explained that Setoodeh Walters was not someone who loved "great confrontation ... and certainly not a confrontation in a room full of senior and junior staff. But O'Donnell wanted to have with her there behind the scenes.
"I certainly screamed," O'Donnell admitted to Setoodeh. "I said how I was disappointed and shocked how and hurts, I would not represent for me. I felt very betrayed on it goes behind my back and talking to Donald Trump in Trumpian language. »
"I can not tell you everything that [O'Donnell] said, but he was naughty," said Geddie. "And she does it for about 40 seconds, maybe a minute. »
O'Donnell expressed his regrets to get personal in his fight with Walters, especially to talk about his family.
"I said something about his daughter, that I would not have said. But I did it, "she explained in the book. She had saidView creator he was "no amazing" that the Walter daughter,Jacqueline Guber, "Could not stand [his]. Walters said O'Donnell not to talk about her.
Geddie finally put an end to the argument, saying O'Donnell that she could not "talk to [Walters] more like that. Walters was not satisfied for how long it took to break the fight, however.
He noted that he was "shocked by" the behavior of O'Donnell. "You do not scream old ladies like that, no matter who they are, and you certainly do not crieve Barbara Walters, the person who hired you," he said.
"The producers still speak the struggle to dress up as a piece they looked at a Volcaning Erupt," writes Setoodeh in his book.
O'Donnell respects Walters, but they are not really friends today.
Despite the drama of the scenes, Walters and O'Donnell continued to work together. Two days later, O'Donnell declared the air that Trump was "again" again publicly insult. Walters called him "a poor pathetic man" in response.
The only period during which the two co-hosts were overlapped on the show ended in 2007 with the departure of O'Donnell; When O'Donnell returned in 2014, Walters had already retired.
Yet, O'Donnell still feels guilty for his comments during their fight. Appearing on the podcastHot Takes and Deep Diving This Mars, O'Donnell confessed that she said things in Walters who were "no business [she]. She continued: "The things that were too personal to raise, and I raised them, and I felt since regret. »
Although O'Donnell said they are still in a "rocky place", she admires Walters again. "She is here now, and she deserves respect, and she deserves to be honored for all that his work has been," she explained.
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