Sherri Shepherd had a tough boss at “The View.”

During her recent appearance on “The Jamie Kern Lima Show,” Shepherd, 58, recalled that Barbara Walters made her first few years on the ABC daytime show a difficult experience emotionally.

“I did cry for three years. Barbara Walters made me cry for three years straight,” said Shepherd, who joined the panel in 2007. 9

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“But what I learned, she taught me how to find my voice,” Shepherd added of the late broadcast TV icon . “That’s what Barbara Walters did for me. I found my voice on that show. What I joke about, I say now my voice is deep because Barbara told me when your voice is deeper, it projects confidence. So that I joke about.”

The “Sherri” host continued, “But that woman there, she was hard on me. She was like, ‘Read a bo

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