“It was Barbara, Whoopi [Goldberg] and myself in the dark green room off to the side,” Steele recalled during the podcast episode, which released on Thursday. “I was probably about four feet from the wall and the trash can and Barbara was standing over here in front of me.”
Steele goes on to describe Walters’ movements, saying that she began to “back up toward me and looked at me and got close and elbowed me.” She added that the physical contact “pushed me back into the wall and the trash can,” leaving Steele to wonder what Walters had just done. “This 140-year-old woman just tried to tackle me,” the former SportsCenter co-host continued. “Some of the producers saw it. Whoopi saw it. And Whoopi was like, ‘Come here.’ She was great. She pulled me aside in her little area and she’s like, ‘Don’t you let her do it.