Barbara Walters Taking The High Road With Star Jones

New York, NY (CNS) - Star Jones may be talking bad about her former "The View" boss Barbara Walters, but Walters is taking the high road and remaining kind. Jones is upset with Walters for talking about her in Walter's new memoir called "Audition."

Walters told AP radio Friday that Jones is "going through a difficult time right now" and she doesn't want to "add to her difficulties." Jones is currently going through a divorce.

Jones wasn't so kind to Walters when she spoke to Us Magazine about Walters new book. In the book, the veteran newswoman claims she lied about Jones's gastric bypass surgery to keep it a secret because Jones didn't want to talk about it.

Jones also said, "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character."