Star Jones smacks down Barbara Walters for 'fessing up to her affair!

Star Jones is snapping back at Barbara Walters for divulging her secret love affair with then-married, then-Sen. Edward William Brooke III in the '70s.

She tells Usmagazine.com, "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."

Of course, Star also might be peeved at Baba Wahwah's recent admission that Jones forced her to lie about Jones' gastric bypass surgery on "The View."

Gee, ya think? Cast your vote.

Photo: Star Jones, left, Bill Geddy, Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira and Joy Behar in happier (and larger) days.
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