Over the years, Barbara Walters has been pretty forgiving of most of her subjects and their misgivings, or at least she comes off as fairly non-judgmental. Maybe that's because she's no angel herself. Baba admitted during a recent taping of the Oprah show to an affair with a married senator in the 1970's.
More than thirty years after the fact, the interview queen opened up to the other interview queen (Oprah) about her affair with Senator Edward Brooke in the 1970's. Brooke, married at the time, was the first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote. Not only that, he was a Republican.
And, in case you were wondering, yeah, she's revealing this now to sell books:
Walters is the guest of Oprah Winfrey to discuss her new memoir, "Audition," which covers her long career in television, as well as her off-camera life. On "Oprah," Walters recounts a phone call from a friend who urged her to stop seeing Brooke.
"He said, 'This is going to come out. This is going to ruin your career,'" then reminded her that Brooke was up for re-election a year later. "'This is going to ruin him. You've got to break this off.'"
Winfrey asks Walters if she was in love.
"I was certainly — I don't know — I was certainly infatuated."
"Infatuated."
"I was certainly involved," Walters says. "He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington."
[AP: Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator]
