Winfrey shared the news while appearing in the late journalist's new documentary 'Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything'

Walters, who earned multiple Daytime Emmys for her work on TODAY and “The View,” married three different men over the course of her life. In 1968, she and her second husband, Lee Guber, adopted a daughter, Jacqueline, with whom she had a tempestuous relationship. Walters died in 2022 at the age of 93.

Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey were not just television icons but close friends who shared a unique bond as pioneering women in broadcast journalism. In a revealing new Hulu documentary titled 'Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything,