You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After a period of mourning and indecision, she and Bob Woodruff were chosen as co-anchors on December 5, 2005. Now in recovery, the ABC anchor is grateful for everyday she has sober and shes sharing her story in her new book, Between Breaths (out Tuesday). [2], In June 1996,[6] she joined ABC News' Good Morning America as the newsreader and Joan Lunden's likely "heir apparent". Elizabeth could have been classy in her response, perhaps telling Barbara that they are like a family, and they acknowledge each other's problems, such as Elizabeth's alcoholism or Barbara's senility. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. Because Barbara Walters never pissed on Matthew Shepard's grave, I side with Barbara. In late 2006, Vargas returned as co-anchor of 20/20 and primary host of ABC News specials. What would follow in the coming decades were daily panic attacks that culminated in alcohol addiction. [quote] 'We all knew,' Walters said. Her career spans about three decades, with appearances on Fox, ABC, and. Examined. FANS of Real Housewives of Orange County are taking Twitter to lambast Elizabeth Vargas after she was fired from the show along with Kelly Dodd and Braunwyn Windham-Burke. Wow. Now I applaud her efforts to shed some light on the link between anxiety and alcoholism, which I imagine will help countless numbers of people and families.. I had never done that. Gibson was then named sole anchor of the show, effective from May 29, 2006, replacing Vargas and Woodruff. [15] She officially departed ABC on May 25 after a dedication on 20/20. After college, Vargas worked at Reno's CBS affiliate KTVN, before moving to Phoenix as a lead reporter for then-ABC affiliate KTVK-TV. But the longtime ABC News anchor was put on that path nearly a decade ago when her treatment for alcohol addiction and anxiety became tabloid fodder. [2] Vargas graduated from an American high school in Heidelberg, where she realized her passion for journalism. Are you on dwugs?". That is what Im going to say about that.. It's only now, with the benefit of many successive 24 hours that I can look back at myself and know that nobody was fooled except me. Vargas is a drunk who should have been fired and she continues to minimize her drunkenness by stressing her "anxiety" problem. At our age, members of the Class of '48 have an abundance of free timeand Joyce Van Denburgh Doty, MFA '50, made excellent use of it with a detailed response to the Share Your News form.. Perhaps invigorated by the oxygen she uses (though she never smoked, she presumes she inhaled others'), she goes beyond her own TV watching of both old black-and-white shows and modern news to .
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