As part of promoting her book Audition, Barbara Walters, whose wrinkles you may count to find the age of the the TV biz, is throwing everyone under the bus. First it was ex-beau Sen. Edward Brooke, and now Star Jones, who tried reinventing herself as a skinny Court TV host and, well, found little success.

In her memoir, Walters claims Jones forced Walters and the crew to lie on the show about her gastric bypass surgery, which she’s only recently come clean about. So how does bitter Star Jones, who’s saying goodbye to maybe-gay husband Al Reynolds, feel about Barbara’s treatment?

“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,” Jones told Us Weekly. “It speaks to her true character.”