Barbara Walters was taken in bed with Richard Pryor, Sherri Shepherd dit

The day host remembered having shared the gossip with the former colleague Joy Behar.


Over the years, many things have been said about the late actor Richard Pryor love life. He came out with the actor Garrier , married seven times to five different women, and would have been connected with Marlon Brando . But now an unexpected person has been added to the list of supposed adventures of Pryor. On a new episode of his talk show Sherri ,, Sherri Shepherd said he was told that Barbara Walters was once taken in bed with Pryor.

Shepherd and Walters share a scene as co-animators View , and on his new show, Shepherd told the story while hosting the guest and View colleague, Joy Behar . She said that she had told Behar the gossip years ago in the intention of keeping secret, then was shocked when Behar confronted Walters with information with her face. Continue reading to learn more.

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Shepherd heard the story of another actor.

Shepherd said The story of Walters and Pryor While explaining to his audience that Behar cannot keep a secret. She said she had heard the rumor of the actor Paul Mooney , who was a collaborator of Pryor's. Shepherd did not reveal when she heard history.

"I had met Paul Mooney, and Paul Mooney said he had caught Barbara Walters with Richard Pryor," said Shepherd. "I came back and I said to myself:" Joy, guess what! "When you talk like that, you know" don't tell anyone ". I said to myself:" Don't tell anyone. ""

Behar said, "He entered them?" Shepherd replied: "He entered. That's what he said ... do not act as if you don't remember!"

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Behar brought the supposed downstream to Walters.

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Behar did not listen to Shepherd's request not to tell anyone and rather confronted Walters on this subject.

"The next day, Barbara enters and you are going ..." So, you have Shlepping Richard Pryor, huh? "" Shepherd recalled Behar. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I didn't say you told me," said Behar. "What did she say?"

"She turned around - and you know that Barbara's head was pivuing like that - she said," Who told you that?! "" Continued Shepherd. Shepherd said Behar had been able to ask personal questions of the show like this because she was not "afraid of Barbara".

Behar said Walters loved black men.

Barbara Walters, Colin Powell, and guest at a reception following the 2012 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
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"Between you and me, Barbara liked a brother ... She went out with a black senator. Is it going to be on television?" Said Behar laughing. Behar and Shepherd stressed that Walters had written about driving with the senator Edward Brooke In the 1970s in his 2008 book, Hearing . They also noted that Walters liked to flirt with his "crushing" Colin Powell Whenever he stopped View .

Walters got married four times to three men: Robert Henry Katz from 1955 to the cancellation of marriage in 1957; has Lee GOT from 1963 to 1976; and at Merv Adelson From 1981 to 1984 then again from 1986 to 1992.

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Walters publicly denied the rumor of Pryor.

Barbara Walters interviewing Richard Pryor in 1980
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Mooney told the same story about Walters and Pryor in an interview on The Bubba army . (Mooney died in 2021.) Howard Stern asked Walters of Mooney's complaint on The Howard Stern show in 2007, and she denied having had sex with Pryor .

However, Walters and Pryor have definitely made crosses - at least professionally. She interviewed him several times. During an interview in 2004 with Oprah Winfrey ,, Walters said of Pryor , "He is fascinating because he is more than an actor. I interviewed him four times. The second time was after He had set fire to . The third was when he admitted to me that he was burnt down. I am touched by Richard Pryor because I saw this brilliant self-destructive man. ""

Pryor fought against drug addiction during his life. He died of a heart attack in 2005 at 65 years of age. Walters died in 2022 at 93 years old.

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