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Sherri Joked About Walters, Not Abortion
July 23, 2008 12:56 PM
Sherri Shepherd stirred up a scandal. Now she’s blaming it on her sense of humor and lack of shame.
In a recent interview with Christian magazine Precious Times, the “View” co-host, a born-again Christian, said she’d like to preach the word of God to Jewish “View” creator Barbara Walters.
“Oh sometimes I say, ‘Lord [evangelists] Juanita Bynum or Joyce Meyer would be so good at this table. They could lay hands on Barbara and get her saved,’” Shepherd told the magazine.
Today, Shepherd sat down at Walters’ table and promptly apologized to the media matriarch.
“It was a joke that I made, it didn’t come off the way I wanted it to,” she said. “I called Barbara in France and she laughed … She didn’t ask me to say this but I do want to say Barbara, if I offended you in any way I apologize, I love you.”
With that faux pas cleared up, Shepherd moved on to the other headline-making quote from her Precious Times interview: That before finding God, she “was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count.”
Shepherd didn’t go back on that quote on “The View,” but she explained, “I suffered from a lot of shame and guilt … I wanted everyone to know that not everyone’s perfect. Some people do it more than once.”
She also said that she met a woman who offered her advice that assuaged some of her guilt.
“She said ‘Sherri, when you get to heaven, all your babies are going to be there to say ‘Hi Mama!,’’” Shepherd said.
“View” moderator Whoppi Goldberg closed the discussion with a call to not judge her co-host.
“As long as you talked to God and you worked it out with God, who are we to say anything else?,” she said.
Sheila Marikar
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Oh barf!!
Posted by: hang | Jul 23, 2008 1:31:22 PM
At least it's not another god awful Elisabeth Hasselbeck story. That chick make me want to puke.
Posted by: Jen | Jul 23, 2008 1:42:52 PM
Why would anyone say something like that? There is nothing comedic about it. She opened her mouth and put her foot right in it. Pretty stupid.
Posted by: LBW | Jul 23, 2008 1:45:10 PM
People are turning to these ladies for advice?? A crack whore that has had so many abortions she can not count them or Rosie, WTF! I have never watched the view, but if you ladies are watching this crap no wonder you are messed up!
Posted by: david | Jul 23, 2008 1:45:23 PM
Oh, she was talking about a REAL abortion! I thought she was referring to the show.
Posted by: Peter | Jul 23, 2008 1:45:24 PM
I have never known a person to get more than one abortion. And of the girls I know who got one, it was from a boyfriend, their only boyfriend, they were just too young and in school and poor so they chose to stay in school. This chick in a league all her own. Not everyone who gets an abortoins is completley screwed up like she was. ANd who is she to say Barbara Walters needs to be 'saved'. unbelievably arrogant! AS if she has all the answers????? wow. What an idiot!
Posted by: jess | Jul 23, 2008 1:48:04 PM
All your babies???? you never had a baby. You never developed the body so the soul never came. being pregnant is an opportunity. If you don't take it, then you never had it. I am prochoice but i think if you chose not to have a baby, not to make it, then you don't have a baby. You never got it. You could have, but you chose not to. deal with it. The soul went somewhere else.
Posted by: jess | Jul 23, 2008 1:50:33 PM
What a bunch of holy than thou bloggers!!!! Open those closets people I am sure some will fall out. You would be surprised how many women have and multiple abortions. Just because they do not fess up does not mean they have not had them. Someone is having them because are quite a few being reported. Sheri I do not think you should be putting your business out there and if Barbara forgives you for you slip of the tongue than move on!
Posted by: moomof4boys | Jul 23, 2008 1:55:46 PM
Another thing that bugs me about these people - they are so completely narcisitic. I believe in God, b ut i'm pretty level headed about it. I do not buy into bible worship or the extremists views of virginity until marriage. All things in moderation.I never slept around, never had abortions, never was screwed up. I didn't need God to keep my head on straight. It was just a matter of common sense. Dont shove your ideas that because YOU are unable to function like a normal rational person w ithout rolling over the deepend in your religion that we all must. It's YOUR weakness that makes you NEED something to keep you straight. The rest of us are just fine, always have been, thank you very much. Barbara Walters is just fine without your version of religion. It's YOU who has problems, obviously. Worry about saving yourself! I'm sure God is perfectly happy with Barbara.
Posted by: jessNboston | Jul 23, 2008 2:00:12 PM
I remember Star riding around in a limo picking up guys to sleep with. She picked up 2 of my (male) friends after a party.
Posted by: october155 | Jul 23, 2008 2:00:38 PM
I think there is too much bickering on the view. God said we are not to judge one another because we all have sinned. Sin is sin no matter what it is. We are all human and not one is perfect. No sin is worse than another sin. We should all love one another and forgive one another.
Posted by: Loretta | Jul 23, 2008 2:04:54 PM
I just wanted to say that I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Sheri at a Women of Faith Conference 2 years ago. She told her testimony, which included the bad choices mentioned of bad relationships/abortions. And she told that part of her life to help people without Christ understand that God will forgive you of those sins, no matter how bad. While I don't applaud her actions before becoming a Christian, we all make mistakes and I'm sure everyone on here has skeletons in their closets. I do however applaud her for laying it on the line and letting people see every side of her. I'm not looking to start debates with anyone, I just wanted to share my opinion.
Posted by: Karen | Jul 23, 2008 2:15:27 PM
It's not just the view, Loretta. These born agains are just so overbearing. They screwed up a big chunk of their life, they dive into an extreme form of religion, basically their latest addiction, that they also go overboard on,a nd proceed to preach to everyone else, judge them and arrogantly think they have any authority at all to try to force their newfound addiction on us. No thank you! Mind your own business. We are not broken, we don't need fixing, we never did. Do remember it's YOU who was the slut, or the alcoholic, or the drug addict, not me! how many of these overbearing people have I met only to findout they have all these ghosts in thier closets, all these things they're running away from yet they preach to me about how to raise my kids or that sex is evil. No. sex was evil for YOU, not me. I've always been just fine, thank you. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!
Posted by: jess | Jul 23, 2008 2:15:57 PM
Jen, at least Elisabeth had enough values to not commit multiple murders of innocent babies. I'm glad that Sherri has made peace with God, but I also hope that her experience will teach other "wayward" women that abortion is wrong and always will be wrong in the eyes of God.
Posted by: evagal | Jul 23, 2008 2:19:36 PM
"And she told that part of her life to help people without Christ understand that God will forgive you of those sins, no matter how bad." - ugh!!! this is exactly the part that makes me want to vomit. We don't need her sanctimonious advice! We dont want it, we don't want to hear it. It's arrogant. It's narcisitic. I've been very happy in my skin my whole life, you don't see me walking around standing on soap boxes proclaiming everyone should look at christ as I do. YOu don't see me judging others saying they would be 'saved' if only they thought like me, a nd guess what, I never had an abortion, or slept around , or was screwd up in any way. I had a prett ygreat life, still do. If anyone s hould be so arrogantly proclaiming to have al l the answers it shoudl be someone like me, not her, yet I would never do such thing because i w as taught HUMILITY! it is CONCIETED, arrogant, narcistic to think just because YOU finally found your freakn way that your 'advice' is worht anything. Shut up already. You have failed in at least the first half of your life, why in the world do you think that makes you worthy of giving speeches about how to live life? everyone finds their own way. It would be so nice if people like this would get over t hemselves to save us all the air pollution of their preachiness.
Posted by: jess | Jul 23, 2008 2:22:14 PM
As much as i dont like whoopi, she is right. This is b/t sherri and God not us, sherri and God. I am fully against abortion, but its not my place to say your a bad person going to hell. God is the one who is allowed to make that decision. I can say i know God wasnt happy with her abortion decision but she has prayed to Him and talked to Him and that is b/t her and Him.
Posted by: Life | Jul 23, 2008 2:24:31 PM
double barf
Posted by: kevie | Jul 23, 2008 2:25:31 PM
evgal, you are the perfect example of what i'm talking about. If you dont' like abortion, dont get one. Noody needs your advice. I do know some girls who got an abortion - ONE abortion, both with longtime boyfriends. They never s lept around, they never got another, they stayed i n school, got their degree, got a career, grew up, eventually married other men and finally had their families and babies when they w ere ready to be moms. Good for them. They do not regret their decision not ot have babies in their teenage years and frankly, I dont' blame them. I think they made the right decision too. AGain, who are you to judge? Your advice is no more welcome than Sherri's. every girl figures out what is right for her and what is right for her may not be right for hte next girl. And you know what, none of them need any advice from me or either from either of you. People are just fine by themselves and if they need someone or something, they will seek it out and find it themselves.
Posted by: jess | Jul 23, 2008 2:26:05 PM
Loretta, please don't put the sin of murder next to the sin of a little white lie. There are levels of sin. Don't insult our intelligence on this factor.
Posted by: evagal | Jul 23, 2008 2:27:17 PM
evagal, jesus never said not carrying a pregnancy to term was a sin. Nowhere in the bible does it say that every pregnancy must be carried to term. nowhere. not once. not that it even means anything if it does, but you don't even have that on your side. Your opinion on this matter is just that, your opinion, and it means nothing to anyone but you. I T hink God probably has no opinion on whether or not a girl carries a pregnancy to term. if she does, she gets the opportunity to be a mother. if she does n ot, she will not g et hte opportunity to be the mother of that child, her choice. I don't think God cares either way and ya knwo what, that's just my opinion too. It doesn't matter one hoot to anyone but me. and it's equally as valid as your opinion.
Posted by: jess | Jul 23, 2008 2:31:00 PM
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