Sage Steele Accuses Barbara Walters of Attacking Her Backstage at ‘The View’: ‘This 140-Year-Old Woman Tried to Tackle Me’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld Sage Steele, the veteran sportscaster who recently left ESPN after settling a lawsuit with the sports media giant, has accused the late Barbara Walters of assaulting her backstage during an appearance on “The View.” “It was Barbara, Whoopi [Goldberg] and myself in the dark green room off to the side,” Steele said on an episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show” Thursday. “I was probably about four feet from the wall and the trash can, and Barbara was standing over here in front of me.
She just started to back up toward me and looked at me and got close and elbowed me, and it pushed me back into the wall and the trash can.
I was like, ‘What did [she] just do to me? This 140-year-old woman just tried to like tackle me.’” Steele continued, “Some of the producers saw it.
Whoopi saw it. And Whoopi was like, ‘Come here.’ She was great. She pulled me aside in her little area and she’s like, ‘Don’t you let her do it.’ And I’m like, ‘Am I in a movie right now?’ One of the legends in this industry just tried to beat me up!” Walters created, produced and co-hosted “The View” for 17 seasons, from 1997 to 2014.
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