Late Barbara Walters' Final Words Will Make You Weep
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Eight months after her death, Barbara Walters' final words have been revealed.
In Axios' reporting of biography The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page, it was shared that the late reporter's last words were, "No regrets—I had a great life." Walters passed away on December 30, 2022 at 93 years old.
Additionally, the book revealed her gravesite, which is located at Lakeside Memorial Park in Miami, where she is buried next to family members, per her request. The plaque includes the aforementioned quote, which sums up her inspiring life story.
Page, who had previously written biographies on Barbara Bush and Nancy Pelosi, told Axios that Walters was "another of those badass women of the Silent Generation."
She shared that her agent Matt Latimer and Robin Sproul, who is the D.C. bureau chief for ABC, had suggested for her to write about the ABC News broadcast journalist "as a consequential, complicated figure."
On its site, Simon & Schuster describes the book as the "definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time[…] a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air."
The description also notes that Page conducted 150 interviews and did extensive archival research "to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide."
The book also "breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her death."
The Rulebreaker arrives on April 23, 2024.
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