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Former Senator Quiet on Relationship With Barbara Walters
Friday May 2, 2008
Barbara Walters attends the Broadcasters Foundation Of America "Golden Mike" Fundraiser February 25, 2008 in New York City.
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Friday May 2, 2008
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Former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke is not commenting on Barbara Walters's admission that they had an affair in the '70s while he was married and in office.
"I have had a lifetime policy and practice of not discussing my personal and private life, or the personal and private lives of others, with the notable exception of what I wrote in my recently published autobiography, Bridging the Divide: My Life," he told the AP Friday.
Their relationship – which Walters told Oprah Winfrey lasted several years – was not mentioned in his book, but Walters wrote about it in her forthcoming memoir, Audition.
In a taped interview to air Tuesday, Winfrey asks Walters if she was love with the senator.
"I was certainly - I don't know - I was infatuated," the View host responded.
The twice-divorced Walters went on to say, "I was certainly involved... He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington."
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Posted by Mandi Illuzzi at 7:27 am ET
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1:38 AM
Anonymously Famous Says:
9:46 AM
Sweet Nectar Says:
I think it was just wrong of her to put her business out like that! How many other affairs has she had? I have lost all respect for Ms. Walters. We've all done things in our past that we are not proud of, but to bring up affairs with married men after all these years is wrong! She has no class, none whatsoever. You see what people do just to promote a book. Some things you take to the grave with you and her affair with the former Senator is one of them. She ought to be ashamed of herself!
10:35 PM
Anonymous Says:
Some people will do anything to sell a book or to make money. What was done in the past is the past. Just let sleeping dogs ly. Barbara was someone at one time that I thought had class but now she only a homewreck and a big mouth slut. She couldn't keep her legs close or her mouth.
9:23 PM
Da_Man Says:
FedUp Says:
"Yeah, that tired old raspy voice, slut needed to keep her nasty trap shut. So she had an affair with a Black man. So do a lot of other white women. And considering that almost ALL white woman want to sleep with Black men and most of them have abandoned the white man for Black men, all I can say is so what?"
ALL white women want to sleep with black men? I don't know what world you're living in but it ain't the real one. Better get a friggin' clue!
6:22 PM
FedUp Says:
Yeah, that tired old raspy voice, slut needed to keep her nasty trap shut. So she had an affair with a Black man. So do a lot of other white women. And considering that almost ALL white woman want to sleep with Black men and most of them have abandoned the white man for Black men, all I can say is so what? There is nothing new about this. How often now, do you see a Black couple? Almost all couples are Black man and white woman! On the news, white woman and Black man co-anchoring. Commercials, Black man and white woman, etc. WTF!
5:56 PM
Anonymous Says:
A woman's heart is an ocean of secrets. Ms Walters should keep her most personable memorable moments separated from the public view. Afterall, the affair has no intent of ever rekindling. Although, I'm sure the ex~Senator is more seasoned than ever and perhaps embarrassed by such publicity. Ms Walters should respect herself, the ex~Senator and her viewers/fans. His personal pasttime with Ms Walters is something that should be kept between the both of them....alone and in the past!
2:38 PM
DrBehaviour Says:
Walters has just as much right to discuss her affair as Brooks has the right to remain 'mum'. It was her life as well as his that perpetuated their involvement with one another. In fact, Walters wrote Brooks that she was including him in her autobiography and he acknowledged same. His relationship with Walters led Brooks to ask his then wife (Italian War Bride) to ask for a divorce so he could marry Walters.
This is 79 year old Walters last hurrah. If she doesn't talk about what happened when her entire life will be left for speculators to confabulate even more stories than they already do. The book may not be your 'cup of tea' nor mine, but, Walters was a TV icon and did pave the way for many women to stride more easily through the television corporate and onair ranks. The truth in the book may be a thinly veiled version of what happened in Walter's life, but, you have to concede it was/is one heck of a life.
11:18 AM
Anonymous Says:
This is in no way all about Barbara. It takes two to lay it down horizontal and he was married (obligated) she was not. So if Senator Edwards did not want any skeletons to turn his world upside down he should not have created them. I have yet to see a politician or a celebrity that does not believe their own hype and inferred god-like status among us mere mortals. They all seem to think they are entitled. The celebrities are entertainment. The politicians are enforcing "morals" on all of us when they lack character themselves.
6:00 AM
Anonymous Says:
Barbara needs to retire and she needs to take Larry King with her. They are painfully out of touch.
11:48 PM
Anonymous Says:
Interesting, etc.
6:47 PM
Disgussted RElative Says:
Barbara needs to chut her old-slut-haj-mouth and move on with her life. It is of not doubt that white women in the 60 and 70's who rose to the top did it at a cost. She forgets to put in her memoir the name of all the married men she slept with, including those during her time with Brooke. I guess he is the most expendible one, since he is low key and black. She would not mention the name of the white-influencial-power men she slept with because she knows that she would get her old-ass blown out of TV.
Who cares what a old-white-sluth did 30 years ago! Unless she is giving details about their sexual encounters, which were probably good, because old man probably had a big dck!
6:42 PM
shelby3570 Says:
she should have kept her fat mouth shut, she has no right to turn his world upside down all these years later, its not fair.
2:47 PM
Jenn Says:
It's just wonderful that Barbara is coming out with this story now in order to push her book. However, I am wondering if former Senator Brooke was as willing to open up about the affair considering he was married at the time. I am guessing that if he wanted the world to know about this, he would have put it in his own book. I have lost a lot of respect for Ms. Walters over this one.
