This is hard to do when your mom is a famous journalist. At one point in high school she ran away from home. Barbara Walters had to hire a Green Beret to help bring her home. Susan Page reveals this in her new book The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters. Barbara died on December 30, 2022.

Barbara Walters had such a tumultuous relationship with her adopted daughter Jacqueline that, at one point, the legendary journalist hired a former Green Beret to track down the girl after she ran away in high school.

Barbara Walters was once so frantic when her daughter went missing, she hired a Green Beret, according to Susan Page’s upcoming biography.

Barbara Walters may be known for getting the scoop, but in the summer of 1985, there was some crucial information she could not find out on her own. The seasoned journalist got a call that her daughter Jacqueline had run away from the Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles,