Barbara Walters usually tries to be so diplomatic on "The View." But this morning, she confessed that when the ladies were discussing the bizarre actions of Heather Mills last week, she wanted to call in (she was off that day) and give her two cents.
So she did it Monday.
Walters has done two interviews with Mills, currently going through a prolonged divorced battle with Paul McCartney. Walters said that after the first interview, when Mills was best known as a model who lost a leg and had dedicated herself to getting artificial limbs for similar victims, "I was very touched by her."
But the second time, after she was with McCartney, "she was so impossible with our producers" and at one point complained that a glass of water brought to her was "not at room temperature."
"All we thought was that this is not a very nice woman," Walters told her co-hosts. "This picture of her being 'poor little me' is something we did not feel."
Walters told viewers that on the day of the second interview, she told McCartney that Mills was "a tough woman" and he replied "I like tough women."
The hilarious Sherri Shepherd piped in Monday after Walters' comments and said: "I was trying to defend you Heather but Barbara says you are not nice!"
After the show, I looked up some articles and discovered that the bad blood between Walters and Mills dates back to earlier this year when Mills skipped out on a scheduled appearance on "The View" after her elimination from "Dancing With the Stars."
"I have very mixed feelings about Heather Mills," Barbara said on an earlier show. "I did a -- I thought -- very positive [interview] piece about her [background and charity work several years ago and] then we began to hear that she was lying about this and lying about that so we did another piece in which I brought up a little of the material that maybe everything she had said was not totally true and a whole other side of her came out. She didn't like that we brought up some of these things."

Well, I guess we won't be seating THOSE two women next to each other at dinner!