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The season 17 co-hosts apparently did not see eye to eye on autism and aesthetic. "Barbara would check out what I was wearing. If she didn't agree with it, or it didn't complement her outfit, I had to change," McCarthy claimed in the book (via Vulture). "Mind you, she doesn't look at anyone's clothes but mine. There were times when she'd say change, and she'd make people run out and get that dress in her size. I was a human Barbie doll."
After McCarthy released her book Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism, Walters apparently had a bone to pick with her co-host. "I walked into her dressing room and she blew up at me," Jenny alleged happened when she visited as a guest. "She was screaming, 'How dare you say this! That autism can be cured?' My knees were shaking. I remember my whole body was shaking."
While McCarthy said she tried to clarify that she had never used the word "cured," "This lasted for about seven minutes. Finally, someone pulled me out of the room. I went back to my dressing room, not knowing what the f--k to do. One of my heroes just chewed me a new a--hole, and I'm going on live TV."