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NEW YORK, Aug 15, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- "Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross is still upset Barbara Walters asked her if she was a lesbian during a New York appearance on "The View" last year.
"I was not happy about it," Cross recently told a Filipino newspaper. "My father, who's 80-something, and my mother were in the front row of the audience"
Walters warned Cross that the subject would come up.
"When I got backstage, Barbara Walters came up to me and said, 'You know, I have to ask you about this.' And I said, 'Why do you have to ask me about this?' 'Well, it's news.' I was like, 'It's news?' At which point my publicist came in and we sorted out how to deal with it."
That still did not make Cross happy, reported MSNBC's "The Scoop."
"I just thought about Barbara, 'You didn't have to ask me that question. That was tabloid-y of you,'" Cross said. "I felt really used. So now I don't really like looking at Barbara Walters."
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