Walters is 80. She's one of television news' best-known personalities for her interviews. She started the daytime talk show "The View" in the 1990s and it became a durable hit.
Asked by co-host Whoopi Goldberg if she is scared, Walters said:
"Look, nobody wants to have this kind of surgery."
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