Barbara Walters doc revisits savage interviews with Taylor Swift, Trump, the Kardashians and more
A new Hulu documentary is revisiting Barbara Walters' most scathing interviews throughout her decades-long career.
In a sneak peek trailer for 'Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything', released Wednesday, celebrities like Taylor Swift, the Kardashians and now-President Trump appear in footage highlighting the late broadcast journalist's most memorable sit downs.
At one point, Walters can be seen telling Swift, 'I know you don't want to talk about guys, and I won't push it, but how are you going to find anybody?'
Other scenes show the intrepid journalist savagely pointing out to the Kardashian family that they 'don't really act,' 'sing,' 'dance' or 'have any talent' — and calling out Trump for his widely perceived lack of 'humility.'
Elsewhere in the teaser, the documentary even re-explores the time Walters asked Courtney Love if she had ever done 'drugs in front of [her] child.'
The singer shares daughter Frances Bean, now 32, with late ex Kurt Cobain.
'No one ever got out totally unscathed,' Walters' former ABC News colleague, Cynthia McFadden, said in a confessional interview.
'She asked the question that nobody else had asked,' Oprah Winfrey added. 'And asked it in a way that always hit a nerve.'
The scene then cuts to a clip of the 'Color Purple' star, 71, being reduced to tears due to Walter's tense interview style.
The pioneering journalist, who collected many legendary accolades throughout her 50-year career, died at age 93 in December 2022.
But her voice lives on in the upcoming documentary, as throwback footage plays of Walters looking back on her own legacy in the media prior to her death.
As the first woman to ever anchor the evening news on a major network, she didn't attribute her success to her good looks.
'I was never beautiful,' she said in the clip. 'If I had been a dog, I mean, maybe they wouldn't have put me on television. But, I mean, nobody ever put me on because I was beautiful or glamorous.'
Instead, Disney CEO Robert Iger credited Walters' enterprising 'vision' as the impetus that propelled her career.
'She had a vision that celebrities are news, and she turned out to be right. They were newsmakers,' Iger, 74, shared.
'Whether it was her looks or her voice, just the fact that she was a woman, there were people that just didn't believe in her and she loved proving them wrong,' he continued. 'Her job was the love of her life.'
'Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything' begins streaming June 23 on Hulu.
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