“Poor woman, she’s gone through so much,” Walters said on Larry King Live Monday night.
Walters was asked about Jones’ comment to Usmagazine.com last week: “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.”
Walters – who claims in her new memoir that Jones forced her to lie about her gastric bypass surgery on The View – responded: “I think [Star’s] suffering now and that’s why she’s lashing out.”
Walters insists she was a fan of Jones (who split from husband Al Reynolds in March).
“I was very fond of Star,” she told King. “The network wanted to let her go. The ratings were going way down… It took her a long time to get a job.
“I wish her well,” Walters added.
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