A chapter in American TV journalism has closed withthe heartbreaking death of Barbara Walters.
In an era when men dominated the TV news industry, Walters defied all conventions.
Guber also wrestled with being adopted.
Then in 1984, Guber ran away from home, hitchhiking 800 miles within a month.
Walters was frantic, but on the advice of an expert, she didn’t get law enforcement involved.
“[T]o send a child away is heartbreaking,” she told Pauley.
My baby’s no longer with me?
I have to put her in someone else’s hands?
And I did."
By that time, Guber was ready to get clean.
“And I thought, you know what?
This is not a bad thing.
If my mom hadn’t called that transport company, I’d have been dead.”
Her wilderness therapy program, New Horizons for Young Women, closed in 2008 after just seven years.
Danforth was released later on a $1,000 bond.
