Sherri Shepherd has claimed Barbara Walters made her "cry for three years straight" on The View.

The 58-year-old talk show host struggled with "speaking [her] mind" at first when she joined the show in 2007 because her religious upbringing lead to her having difficulties communicating as she was "taught to look at the ground" when speaking to others.

As a result, Sherri experienced "a lot of humiliations" on her early days on the programme and despite the late View creator being "hard" on her, she praised Barbara for helping her to "find [her] voice".

Speaking on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast, Sherri said: "It was a lot of failures, it was a lot of humiliations. When I got on The View, it was everything I hated to do, I had to do every day on The View. I was a very fearful person.

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