Bethanne, I TOTALLY agree with you.

If she didn't include it, and it was later revealed, then the veracity of her memoir would be called into question. As to her stating, "handwritten," given the use of computers, I usually write most notes to friends and love ones on the computer, mostly because it's faster and my handwriting can be hard for other's to read (it's clear as a bell to me, though!). If I wrote something to someone handwritten, it would be something that would set it apart from other correspondence in it's intimacy. This is just my opinion, but it's looking at the story with a different, less critical, perspective.

One article I read says she was earning twelve million a year. When is enough enough, monetarily or attention-wise? She could have written about her family, her interviews, etc. without trashing Star, Rosie, and especially without the affair.

There is a stark contrast between the classy journalists who have published memoirs - Walter Cronkite, Bob Schieffer, Ben Bradlee, Katherine Graham - and Barbara Walters. Her memoir is tabloid fodder compared to the others. Some things are better left unsaid. Where is the honor in hurting other people? And BW has the audacity to say that she was not a m because she was not being kept! She should look at the dictionary, which defines "mistress" as "a woman having an extramarital relationship, esp. with a married man".

Never was a Walters fan, but it's the story of her life, right? She's welcome to tell it and let the chips fall where they may. One reason for talking might be to show that she could do something nobody thought she could. And get away with it. After all, her career has been full of "you can't do this" situations. I am not justifying adultery, however. As for money, is there some rule that she isn't allowed to make as much money as, say, greedy Donald Trump? Who has displayed far too much of his personal life for the world to see? Don't think so.

I don't usually read memoirs because I don't want to know the intimate details of anyone's life. It's their life, not mine, and it makes me too uncomfortable being privy to information that I have no need to know. Say I just don't have the curiosity gene if you want, but I'll stick to reading fiction where I don't have to be embarrassed about learning something about a real person that I shouldn't know.