'This 140-year-old woman just tried to, like, tackle me!' Sage Steele claims the late Barbara Walters elbowed and pushed her 'back into the wall and the trash can' backstage at 'The View.'
"She just started to back up towards me, and looked at me, and got close, and elbowed me, and it pushed me back into the wall and the trash can," Steele, who served as a guest co-host offor five episodes in 2014, alleged. "I was like 'What did this mmmm just do to me? This 140-year-old woman just tried to, like, tackle me! What is happening right now?"and some of the show's producers witnessed the alleged altercation.
Steele said she was stunned by the entire episode. She remembered thinking, "Am I in a movie right now? A legend…one of the legends in this industry just tried to beat me up!" she told Kelly.This isn't the first claim of Walters' physical aggression. When recalling fond memories of the late broadcaster after she died last year at age 93, former
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