Barbara Walters said she was in a "unilateral quarrel" with Frank Sinatra

The singer was a family friend until the journalist tries to report a story about his personal life.


If you imagined that Barbara Walters And Frank Sinatra Once crossed, you would probably assume that it is because she interviewed him. But that was not the case. Walters and Sinatra first connected as a family older, but according to her, they have become disagreement in what she called "a unilateral quarrel". It all started when Walters looked into the more potential side of her work as a television journalist and examined a relationship of the rumor of the emblematic singer.

Read the rest to discover what exactly happened between Walters and Sinatra when she dug in her personal life and what they both had on the grudge.

Read this then: See the granddaughter of Frank Sinatra, who follows her traces .

Walters met Sinatra before being famous.

Frank Sinatra at the airport in London in 1956
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Father of Walters, Lou Walters , founded the Night Latin Quarter chain, which had locations in New York, Miami and Boston. Sinatra played in clubs, then Walters crossed the way with him. "I had known Sinatra and for years," she wrote in her 2008 book Hearing: a memoir .

According to the showbiz cheat sheet, when Walters started working Today In the early 1960s, She met Sinatra At the home of a common friend, and he complimented him for his work and said that he regularly looked at the show of short stories. The site reports that in her book, she wrote that her sister and parents had good memories of Sinatra - who was 14 years older than Walters - of her Latin quarters.

Their relationship changed after trying to report a story.

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The relationship between friendly knowledge has worsened when Walters was invited to examine Sinatra's personal life. According The Baltimore sun ,, Walters said , "For the next 30 years, Sinatra made me hatred", because she called him to ask him if he was true that he was engaged to the worldly and the future ambassador Pamela Hayward While she was working at Today .

"I was not a gossip columnist, but I thought that if I could tell the network what history was really, Sinatra and the network would appreciate it," she wrote (via the sheet of Showbiz cheat). She left a message with her butler, but it turned out that the singer did not appreciate her. And the rumor on Hayward was not true in the first place.

She called him a "vehement and vocal enemy".

Frank Sinatra performing in 1986
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In Hearing ,, Walters wrote "While I became more respected as a journalist, I was also, to my great sadness, becoming vilified by a man whom I loved as a interpreter and that I considered a friend of the family. Frank Sinatra, nothing less, has become a vehement and vocal enemy. For most of the rest of his life, he regularly complained about me publicly and ostracized me in private, for the craziest reason. ""

She tried to apologize to the singer and the actor, but he would not accept it. Walters wrote a letter to Sinatra, but he "torn the opposite," reports The Baltimore Sun.

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The beef finally ended.

Barbara Walters holding her book
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The "unilateral and in progress quarrel" continued for years, and Walters said that it was even a dasinvated event because Sinatra was going to be there. "I was barely the only journalist to feel his anger, but it hurt more because we had seen him so long as a family friend," wrote Walters. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Years later, Walters considered the quarrel was finished when they were sitting at the same table during a charity event and Sinatra made him a head and said hello.

"I am sure that at that time, he had long forgotten why I had put it so angry 30 years before. Our one-way quarrel was finally over," she wrote.


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