It wasn't her choice.
"It's been a joyful, rewarding, challenging, fascinating and occasionally bumpy ride and I wouldn't change a thing," Walters said at the time."It's my decision, I've been thinking about it for a long time, and this is what I want to do."
She returned to the show a couple of times after leaving as a regular host and remained an executive producer. She also continued with TV specials and interviews until 2015 at which point she retired from TV appearances altogether.In the story for The Cut, Ling, who co-hostedfrom 1999 to 2002, said that Walters told her she didn't really want to leave the show.
"I've never shared this with anyone," Ling told The Cut. She explained that when the show was no longer live, she asked Walters,"Barbara, in a couple of months, are you going to be lounging in a hammock in Tahiti?"For more celebrity news delivered right to your inbox,
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