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I read her book audition years ago as her autobiography and it really was life-changing for me but probably not in the way that Barbara Walters thought it might be.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Jan 2023 Listen at 0:33 Why people recommend it
Audition by Barbara Walters is a revealing memoir by the trailblazing broadcast journalist that details her remarkable rise to television stardom. Megyn Kelly discussed the autobiography across multiple episodes of The Megyn Kelly Show, noting that reading the book was deeply eye-opening and ultimately life-changing, though perhaps not in the way the author originally intended. Kelly expressed feeling deeply disturbed and unsettled by the contents after reading every single page cover to cover, observing that the narrative laid bare a relentless, laser-focused pursuit of professional success, celebrity, and career achievement above all else, including family life. As a young mother, Kelly drew specific parenting lessons and cautionary takeaways from Walters's personal choices and regrets. By revisiting the memoir, Kelly used the book to analyze the steep personal costs associated with attaining unprecedented levels of ambition and breaking barriers in a male-dominated industry, reflecting on the heavy sacrifices that defined the legendary broadcaster's extraordinary life and career in television news.
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Megyn Kelly I read her book audition years ago as her autobiography and it really was life-changing for me but probably… 4
“The thing about Barbara Walters that I just have never been able to get past having read her autobiography audition when it first came out. I think it was 2007 or eight. Um is that it was all she had. Mhm. The the news, her pursuit of stardom, and those who knew her, and they say this in the documentary,”
“and I learned all those lessons from her book her Memoir called audition which came out in 2008 was a very eye-opening for me as a young mother”
“I read her book audition years ago as her autobiography and it really was life-changing for me but probably not in the way that Barbara Walters thought it might be”
“I bought her autobiography audition several years ago well uh I actually read that book cover to cover I read every word in it and I was deeply disturbed by what I saw”
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