Barbara Walters Details 46 More Affairs To Bolster Sagging Book Sales

In a seemingly desperate effort to bolster sagging sales of her new memoir, Audition, television personality Barbara Walters today detailed on the ABC daytime program “The View” 46 more affairs with individuals both famous and obscure.

“I slept with politicians, network TV producers, maitre d’s, and at least two professional golfers,” Walters told her co-hosts and audience members, who gave her a standing ovation to acknowledge her personal power. “The only nights I didn’t have sex was when I was home with my then-husband.”

Walters launched her memoir, published in May by Knopf, with the shocking revelation that she had enjoyed a longtime affair with Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.

“Brooke, for me, was really about reparations,” Walters told View co-host Whoopi Goldberg. “It was my personal way of apologizing for slavery and discrimination. But the rest of my affairs were pure lust.”

Brooke today is in his 70s and is in retirement in Florida; he declined to comment either on Walters’ initial revelation of their affair or on her subsequent admission of almost four dozen other lapses of her marital vows. Friends of Brooke said he found her “kissing and talking” decades after their affair “a distasteful intrusion” into his privacy.

When pressed by co-host Joy Behar for details about the other intimate relationships, Walters offered a coy smile and explained that readers had to buy her book, which contained a special code that would allow them to visit a website where she had “all the information” about her encounters, with enough detail to “make a sailor blush.”

When pressed for specifics, Walters got a far-away look in her eyes and said, “I’ll tell you this. Back in the 70s, you want to know who was all man? Dan Rather. He should have headed The National Endowment For The Arts, if you catch my drift.”
The revelation drew another standing ovation from the audience. A spokesperson for Knopf said that if these revelations don’t improve book sales, Walters is likely to go public with news of her 1975 liaison with 70s pop singer Helen Reddy (“I Am Woman!”) at the LPGA Golf Tournament at Palm Springs.