Barbara Walters He was one of the most successful journalists in the world, known for interviewing presidents, celebrities and world leaders.

However, behind her impressive career was a personal struggle that never did the titles in the same way.

Before the documentary that speaks the Walters story, a close friend was opened about the challenges with which the icon is turned, revealing its greatest regret.

It turns out that Walters's greatest heartbreaker was not her career, but her heavy relationship with her adopted daughter, Jackie.

Walters had a turbulent relationship with her adopted daughter, Jackie.

For years, he called the work person for a close relationship of his mother's daughter, but unfortunately, she never ever experienced him.

As allegedly, Walters will look at the pictures of their friends with their children and grandchildren, wanting to refer to their joy.

To passes 2022. yearsThe icon lived with regret on the condition of his relationship with Jackie.

Recently, Walterss' friend and former correspondent of NBC Cynthia McFadden have discussed exclusively People About journalistic thought about her relationship with Jackie.

She said at the exit that Walters struggled with an emotional gap that left their complicated relationship.

"She would say to all:" I admire my relationship with your relationship with your relationship. "She was very sorry about her family life. There was something that she felt like it couldn't be fixed. So that's really pulling on her," she said.

Walters' decision to adopt a Jackieoted from her incapacity to give birth. The TV star was married with his other wife, Lee Guber, at the time and eagerness has a child after he suffers three abortions.

1968. Walters' Longtime friend Roy Cohn found a girl for them to adopt, and they were over the moon.

While adoption was undoubtedly conveniently conveniently for a couple, Walters wanted a little not to advertise.

"I really didn't want Biological mother to know that Jackie adopted us. I just kept the right to work," she said NBC News 2002. years.

At that time, Jackie was adopted, the 93-year-old was just joined by ABC "Today". Consequently, the juggling of the motherhood and such demanding careers have become a very task for Walters.

"I never thought about it. I didn't mean," Can I juggle both? "I should probably have," she said.

However, regardless of her busy schedule, Barbara Walters ensured that her daughter was not entirely importance.

Still, Jackie found a hard fit to the breast world as she grew up. At some point, he rebelled terribly, losing the focus and became a drug user.

According to McFadden, Walters was heart attacked and could not relate to his daughter, which was not as a career as she was.

"She couldn't understand someone like Jackie, who doesn't race to the top," she said People.

"They were just so much in the mood and physically unlike each other," she continued. "It was a struggle. It's not saying they didn't love themselves, but there was no one that hoped, and he was probably not what Jackie nor hoped."

In addition to Jackie's lack of focus and drug use, she became both escaped.

1985 Barbara Walters received the invitation that her daughter disappeared, two weeks after she enrolled in a high school student program in Parsons design in Los Angeles.

According to her biography "Practor Rule: Life and Times Barbara Walters" wrote a Susan page, Jackie ran away with a friend and the other missing four days.

Fortunately, Walters received the news that her daughter was in Novi Mexico.