Some people will do ANYTHING to sell a book
By Dave
May 1st, 2008 | Leave a comment
Barbara Walters is promoting her memoirs – including a stop on Oprah Winfrey’s set – and has disclosed an affair she had with a married U.S. senator 30 years ago. In revealing her affair with Sen. Edward Brooke, she remembers him as “exciting” and “brilliant.”
Both were aware at the time that if the affair had become public, it could have ruined both of their careers. Now, it seems to drive book sales.
On Oprah, Walters stopped short of saying she was in love with Brooke. “I was certainly — I don’t know — I was certainly infatuated,” she said.
She recalled a telephone conversation with a friend who urged her to break it off and warned her that sooner or later it would be made public and it would ruin her career and Brooke’s career.
