{"id":65449,"date":"2025-05-29T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=65449"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:14:49","slug":"barbara-walters-takes-savage-swipe-at-taylor-swift-in-resurfaced-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=65449","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Walters takes savage swipe at Taylor Swift in resurfaced clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/scaled\/2014\/12\/10\/23F29ED800000578-0-image-a-4_1418235107105.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift talks about dating and her sanity in Barbara Walters interview | Daily Mail Online\" \/>\u00a0Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By DEIRDRE DURKAN-SIMONDS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n<p>Published:<time datetime=\"2025-05-28T19:19:33+0100\"> 14:19 EDT, 28 May 2025 <\/time> | Updated: <time datetime=\"2025-05-28T19:51:08+0100\"> 14:51 EDT, 28 May 2025 <\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Barbara Walters was famous for\u00a0asking provocative questions to some of the world&#8217;s most\u00a0fascinating subjects from\u00a0Monica Lewinsky and\u00a0Elizabeth Taylor to Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n<p>Although she made a name for herself with her bold and probing interview style, the\u00a0 legendary broadcast journalist, who passed away at age\u00a093 in 2022, often, pushed it too far with her guests.<\/p>\n<p>In a trailer for Hulu&#8217;s upcoming documentary, which chronicles the highs and lows of her illustrious career, the TV personality can be seen\u00a0cruelly confronting Taylor Swift on her love life, taking a swipe at Donald Trump and driving\u00a0Oprah Winfrey to tears.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014,\u00a0Walters grilled the pop star, then 25, on her failed romances\u00a0as she mused that as she has become &#8216;more famous so have the boyfriends.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Her hits chronicle high-profile relationships that blossom, wither, die, and then get turned into song lyrics,&#8217;\u00a0Walters said as a montage of photos with Swift and some of her exes, including Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas,\u00a0John Mayer, appeared.<\/p>\n<p>From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail\u2019s new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop .<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Barbara Walters famously grilled Taylor Swift on her failed romances as she mused that as she has become &#8216;more famous so have the boyfriends&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While referring to the Grammy winner&#8217;s\u00a0highly autobiographical songwriting style, Walters brazenly asked the singer how she ever intends &#8216;to find anybody&#8217; to date.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the interview, Swift\u00a0acknowledged the double standard in how people view it to be &#8216;brave&#8217; when male musicians share their emotion, but &#8216;if a woman shares her experience in writing she&#8217;s oversharing&#8230; or she might be crazy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Cruel Summer hitmaker also reflected on the long-running joke that people who date her should &#8216;watch out [or] she&#8217;ll write a song about you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When Walters quipped there may be some truth to that one, Swift quickly slammed the &#8216;old&#8217; joke, which she said came &#8216;from a place of such sexism.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were made during ABC&#8217;s Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Tell Me Everything documentary also highlighted\u00a0Walters fearlessly going\u00a0toe to toe with Trump as she claimed\u00a0people don&#8217;t see him &#8216;show any humility&#8217; and\u00a0asking Courtney Love if she had &#8216;ever done drugs in front&#8217; of her child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She asked the question that nobody else had asked,&#8217; Oprah Winfrey recalled. &#8216;And asked it in a way that always hit a nerve.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In 1988, Walters caused Winfrey to cry after asking if she wished she had been born white.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While referring to the Grammy winner&#8217;s highly autobiographical songwriting style, Walters brazenly asked the singer how she ever intends &#8216;to find anybody&#8217; to date<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Tell Me Everything documentary also highlighted Walters fearlessly going toe to toe with Trump as she claimed people don&#8217;t see him &#8216;show any humility&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8216;She asked the question that nobody else had asked,&#8217; Oprah Winfrey recalled. &#8216;And asked it in a way that always hit a nerve&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the interview, Winfrey hesitantly answered that she did wish she was white when &#8216;growing up in Mississippi.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In my mind then white kids were loved more,&#8217; she explained. &#8216;Their parents were nicer to them and, so, I wanted that kind of life.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Other standout moments in the trailer included showing resurfaced footage of her telling\u00a0the Kardashians sisters point-blank that they have no talent, pressing Barbra Streisand on why she never had her &#8216;nose fixed&#8217; and asking\u00a0Martha Stewart why &#8216;so many people hate&#8217; her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No one ever got out totally unscathed,&#8217; journalist Cynthia McFadden said of Walters\u2018 unflinching interview style.<\/p>\n<p>Disney CEO Bob Iger also praised her for foreseeing &#8216;that celebrities are news.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 12 and will hit Hulu on June 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While referring to the Grammy 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