Katie Couric highlighted one of her former colleague Barbara Walters’ deep insecurities in the new documentary “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything.”
“Oh, we’re so alike: Neither of us is that attractive,” Couric, 68, recalled the pioneering journalist once saying of her appearance, per People.
Walters and Couric were both close friends and competitors in the broadcast news industry.
“When I was competing with her for a big get, I knew I had to gird myself for the battle,” Couric said in a 2022 essay for the New York Times. “I can’t count how many times, much to my chagrin, I got word that a sought-after newsmaker was sitting down for an exclusive interview with Barbara.”
According to People, Walters’ friends and colleagues agreed that the media icon suffered from a “painful insecurity” throughout her life despite her immense success on TV.
Her self-consciousness likely stemmed from her upbringing in Boston with her father who ran a nightclub.
Though a young Walters got to meet stars like Frank Sinatra in its heydey, her life was turned upside down when the business failed and she was forced to work to provide for her parents and her older sister, Jacqueline, who had special needs.
“She took that responsibility very seriously,” her friend, former NBC correspondent Cynthia McFadden, told the outlet.
In addition to the inside glimpse at the intrepid reporter’s life and legacy, “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” also explores Walters’ most memorable sit-downs.
In a trailer released last month, celebrities like Taylor Swift, the Kardashians and now-President Trump appear in footage highlighting the broadcast journalist’s blunt interview style.
At one point, Walters — who died at 93 years old in 2022 — can be seen asking 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 clips shows her brutally telling the Kardashian family that they don’t “have any talent” — and calling out Trump for his widely perceived lack of “humility.”
“No one ever got out totally unscathed,” McFadden said in the teaser.
“She asked the question that nobody else had asked,” Oprah Winfrey added. “And asked it in a way that always hit a nerve.”
“Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” begins streaming June 23 on Hulu.