{"id":534260,"date":"2023-01-03T02:33:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cindy-adams-remembers-her-friend-barbara-walters\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T02:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:33:29","slug":"cindy-adams-remembers-her-friend-barbara-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cindy-adams-remembers-her-friend-barbara-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cindy Adams remembers her friend Barbara Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3641c0002fe\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3641c0002fe\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cindy-adams-remembers-her-friend-barbara-walters\/#%E2%80%9CCindy_Adams_remembers_her_friend_Barbara_Walters%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Cindy Adams remembers her friend Barbara Walters&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCindy_Adams_remembers_her_friend_Barbara_Walters%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Cindy Adams remembers her friend Barbara Walters&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Cindy Adams\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The world said goodbye to a giant. I\u2019m saying goodbye to a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Walters and I met as teenagers. Her father Lou Walters\u2019 Latin Quarter nightclub did showgirls with major boobs, minor costumes and bigtime co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>ns. Me dating Joey Adams. She attending Sarah Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>We stayed close longer than I admit I\u2019ve lived. Homes, nearby. We even priced connecting Plaza hotel apartments.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve holiday\u2019d together, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed together. Berlin, Rome, Croatia, Vegas, Judge Judy\u2019s yacht, the Hamptons. 1971 the Shah\u2019s guests in Persepolis, Iran, 1960 was Israel. She gave me a mink jacket, gold Bulgari watch, 18-karat bracelets from Dubai. In Argentina she bought 20 scarves for gifts and, forgetting I was there when she bought them, handed me one six months later for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve shared tears. Secrets. Holidays. Birthdays. Humor. Like telling me: \u201cAs we get older you get grayer, I get blonder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What to give a person who has everything? One birthday I gave her a year\u2019s prepaid Chinese food takeout plus the same deal at the Second Avenue Deli.<\/p>\n<p>On one international cruise, we had our private table. Backs to the room. Dark glasses and babushkas. A nearby party of six talking loudly dissed her. We monitored every word. After dinner we walked over and asked them to repeat it. They turned gray. Nice moment.<\/p>\n<p>Flying to Italy, our cosmetic surgeon friend Dr. Daniel Baker gave me Ambien, which I\u2019d never taken before. Five milligrams. Forgetting I\u2019d taken one, I took more. I was OUT! My head lay in our breakfast omelet. To disembark, B.W. had me tied onto a wheelchair and, with limited humor, was not thrilled to be pushing me up a ramp.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-03.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Walters met Adams when they were teenagers and she was a college student.\" class=\"wp-image-25213976\" width=\"307\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=612 614w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=459 460w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=307 307w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=153 153w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\"\/><figcaption>Walters met Adams when they were teenagers and she was a college student.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Jimi Celeste\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Best in the business, she told me: \u201cCastro drove me through mountains to his hideaway where he was a guerilla. I found him sexy. He picked me up in his jeep driving back streets with a gun in his lap.\u201d Scared? \u201cNo,\u201d she said. \u201cNever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once she picked an \u201cin\u201d unfamiliar downtown restaurant. The maitre, bowing low, selected a special table. Their tasting menu was rabbit, boar, deer, pigeon. Not for us, so instead we killed a whole loaf of bread.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara\u2019s tab? $900! Plus tip. The snarky maitre d\u2019: \u201cIf you didn\u2019t eat so much bread, you\u2019d have tasted our menu.\u201d I sent Barb a thousand dollars in pantyhose to make up for it.<\/p>\n<p>There was her longtime Roy Cohn friendship, a couple of husbands, beaux like a major name in sports, Senator Ed Brooke, and together we attended Donald Trump weddings.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 she wrote a tribute for my 25 years at the New York Post. Fellow animal lover, Cha Cha was her Havanese. Years back when Jazzy, my adored Yorkie, was killed in the supposed care of his trainer, I went insane.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of local pols, I fought to institute the animal dog-care bill called The Boarding Kennel Regulation Amendment. Now it is law. Then it was Barbara who stood alongside me at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>A story nobody knows. And was never told. The 1990s smart society-logged eatery on NYC\u2019s East Side, which filled with luncheon ladies who ate asparagus and lettuce and filled up on gossip was Mortimer\u2019s. One day we came early and stayed. Talking. Her idea was a new talk show. We sat for hours. Her ideas. My thoughts. Her plans. My input. It then became \u201cThe View.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Walters told Adams about her plan to create &quot;The View&quot; during a lunch in the 1990s.\" class=\"wp-image-25213999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/adams-walters-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Walters told Adams about her plan to create \u201cThe View\u201d during a lunch in the 1990s.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Bruce Glikas\/Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A dozen years ago she came over. Unh<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y at my appearance, she sent her doctor who immediately put me into life-saving surgery. A ruptured appendix.<\/p>\n<p>I was home for months.<\/p>\n<p>Following my merry-go-round, Barbara then . . . slowly . . . inch-by-inch . . . inexplicably began frazzling. She fell faint. A fall. Forgetful. Repetition. Her longtime loyal, devoted chief of staff, George Gapineda \u2014 with her about 25 years \u2014 accompanied her for tests. Defective nerve. Heart surgery. Doctors. Stents. Operations. In her floor-through apartment, one room became a hospital room. What happened afterwards was slow.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Dinners at home. Adjoining a dining room with service for 50, a large living room with one small table became where we\u2019d do dinner. Fresh orchids.<\/p>\n<p>Guests not. Beyond urgencies, this August marked six years she\u2019d not been outside. We\u2019d visit in her library filled with its photos, awards, magazine covers, stories, pictures with the world\u2019s famous.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d bring gossip. We\u2019d dish. Then walking became a wheelchair. Then her conversation stopped. Then the bedroom, then 24-hour-a-day nurses. George, housekeeper Ava, me, we never spoke to anyone about her condition. A code of silence. We saw. We knew. Didn\u2019t always understand. But we knew.<\/p>\n<p>Seems the body can telegraph its life span. A week or 10 days ago, our doctor recognized the end signs.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you one thing \u2014 it\u2019s tough to lose a longtime best friend. Number One. Nobody could beat Barbara Walters. But the very day she left us, so did His Holiness the former Pope Emeritus Benedict. For the first time in a quarter of a century, Barbara Walters took second billing.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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