Home Media Barbara Walters Flashback to 2013: She Told “I Wasn’t Retiring from Anything”...
Barbara Walters did not want to let go of “The View” or her career. This was ten years ago, she was 83, which was unheard of for a woman, and one in media.
Read my exclusive from back then right here .
Also, Barbara’s 2013 retirement was short lived, She came back in 2014 with a real get.
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