Barbara Walters has revealed that she had an affair with then-Sen. Ed Brooke in the 1970s.Promoting her memoir, "Audition," the legendary television journalist dished about her long-running relationship with the Massachusetts Republican to Oprah Winfrey, according to a transcript of next week's broadcast leaked to the Associated Press yesterday.
They met at an N.Y.C. restaurant in '73 when she was in a busy dating phase. "Ed Brooke was simply the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming, and impossible man." How so? He used to joke that "I was the oldest woman he had ever been attracted to." (She writes she was tempted to respond, "Oh yeah? Well, you are the blackest man I have ever been with.")
"I was excited, fascinated, intrigued and infatuated," Walters writes. She badly wanted to marry him, and her ultimatum prodded him to seek a divorce, she says.
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