Sherri Shepherd has a good reason not to trust Joy Behar with a hot topic!
As Shepherd and Behar reminisced about their late colleague Barbara Walters on Wednesday’s episode of , the discussion led to some years-old, piping-hot tea about creator (who died in December 2022 at age 93) — which Behar, at the time, spilled back to Walters herself.
“I would tell you stuff and then you would go and tell it. I never told this before, but I’m going to tell it,” dished Shepherd, 56. “I told Joy that I had run into Paul Mooney and Paul Mooney had said that he caught Barbara Walters with Richard Pryor.”
Behar, 81, then asked, “What do you mean? She slept with Richard Pryor?”
“Yes, that’s what Paul Mooney said!” Shepherd said in response. “And I came back and I was like, ‘Joy, guess what?’ When you talk like that, you know, don’t tell nobody.”
Behar acknowledged she partially remembered the moment in question, and Shepherd continued, “I came and I told you and I said Paul Mooney said that he caught Barbara with Richard Pryor. He walked in on them. And I was like, ‘Don’t tell nobody.’”
“He walked in … that’s what he said. He looked through the door,” Shepherd recalled. “Don’t act like you don’t remember. It was just me and Joy … ‘Don’t tell nobody.’ And the next day, Barbara walks in and you [told her].”
Behar countered, “I didn’t say you told me!”
“But you say to Barbara, ‘So, you’re [sleeping with] Richard Pryor, huh?’” Shepherd added. “She turned around. You know Barbara’s head would swivel like that. She goes, ‘Who told you that?’ I’m sitting there and I just got this job. And Joy, you do that because you’re not scared of Barbara.”
Behar then noted how Walters had a type in her romantic life, noting that the late news personality “was going out with a Black senator” at one point.
“It’s in her book,” Shepherd confirmed, adding, “You always said Barbara loved a chocolate man. She loved Colin Powell. Every time Colin Powell came on, she was all the way over here.”
Behar agreed, “It’s true! She did. She loved a brother.”
Walters and Behar were a part of The View’s original panel of co-hosts. Shepherd later joined as a permanent panelist in 2007 and left in 2014, which is the same year Walters retired from the series. (Behar was fired in 2013 but has since remained a series mainstay after returning in 2015.)
Opening up about her friendship with Walters earlier this year, Shepherd recalled how fun-filled dinners with her former colleague — and the racy subject matter they’d discuss.
“For me, I connected with Barbara’s sense of humor. I think that not enough people really got to see what a bawdy sense of humor Barbara had,” Shepherd told E! News in January, shortly after Walters’ death. “When she would tell me, not ask, tell me we are going to go to dinner, I would shake in my boots because I was just like, ‘What did I do now? And why do we need to go to dinner?’ But when we would get to the restaurant, she was like a queen when she was ordering things. But then we would talk, it was like literally, she was my mom.”
Shepherd added, “We would talk and laugh. Literally, we could talk about sex all day long — she had advice for days.”
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