If she could only turn back time, Barbara Walters would have wanted to spend more of her time with her only daughter, Jackie, who she adopted with her ex-husband, Lee Guber. Speaking with ABC News in 2014, Walters confessed to being so focused on her work that it compromised her most important relationships.
“I was so busy with a career. It’s the age-old problem,” she admitted. “And, you know, on your deathbed, are you going to say, ‘I wish I spent more time in the office?’ No. You’ll say, ‘I wish I spent more time with my family,’ and I do feel that way. I wish I had spent more time with my Jackie.” At the time, she also opened up about her ex-husbands (she was married thrice.) “I don’t think that I was very good at marriage,” the news anchor added. “It may be that my career was just too important. It may have been that I was a difficult person to be married to, and I just seem to be better alone.”
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In an interview with Piers Morgan in 2013 on CNN, Walters also got real on the topic of expanding her family. “I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family,” she said (via HuffPost). Sadly, Walters struggled with infertility issues — but in a beautiful turn of events, it’s what ultimately led her to Jackie. “Oh, I adore my daughter,” she mused in an interview with OWN.
