‘They make me quit’: Lisa Ling, friend of Barbara Walters, says the late TV icon has been yanked from her seat on The View
The late Barbara Walters was pushed out of her place on The View – the show she created – in 2014, according to her friend Lisa Ling.
Ling, 49, told The Cut Monday that Walters – who died last December aged 93 – revealed it to her on her final day of filming at the ABC chat roundtable in 2014.
Ling, who is currently a reporter for CNN, told the outlet that she “never shared this before.” [information] with someone.’
Ling said that on the final day of filming, she told Walter’s off-camera about her upcoming retirement, “Barbara, are you going to be lounging in a hammock in Tahiti in a few months?”
Ling said Walters whispered back to her, “You make me stop.”
The late Barbara Walters was pushed out of her place on The View – the show she created – in 2014, according to her friend Lisa Ling
Walters, who died December 30 at her New York City home, founded the ABC series in 1997 and served as a host and producer until 2014.
The View was the culmination of an unprecedented media career for pioneer Walters, who became the first female evening news host for ABC in 1976.
She then began hosting network news 20/20 in 1979 and appeared on the news magazine until 2004.
Despite the reportedly acrimonious circumstances behind her departure from the ABC series, the broadcast journalism icon was feted at her final show in May 2014 by a cast of the news industry’s brightest stars, including Ling, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Roberts, Katie Couric, Connie, among others Chung and Hoda Kotb.
Winfrey said: “I had to be here at your last show to celebrate you for what you meant to me. You literally meant the world to me.
“Like everyone else, I want to thank you for being a pioneer and all that that word means. It means being the first; the first in the room to smash down the door, tear down the barriers, pave the road we all walk. Thank you for that. And thank you for the courage it took to get up and keep going every day.”
Walters, who died December 30 at her New York City home, founded the ABC series in 1997 and served as a host and producer until 2014
![Ling, a reporter for CNN, told the outlet that she never shared this [information] with anyone' about the icon's revelation to them. Pictured in Austin, Texas last month](https://www.spamchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1680586593_312_Lisa-Ling-friend-of-Barbara-Walters-says-the-late-TV.jpg "Lisa Ling, friend of Barbara Walters, says the late TV icon has been yanked from her seat on The View 5")
Ling, a reporter for CNN, told the outlet that she never shared this [information] with anyone’ about the icon’s revelation to them. Pictured in Austin, Texas last month
Walters was seen chatting with President Joe Biden on the show in 2014 prior to her departure