V. Stiviano sat for a bizarre interview with Barbara Walters

<h1 class="hf1" style="font-size: 40px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="color: magenta;">V. STIVIANO</span></h1> <h3 class="hf2" style="font-size: 72px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 65px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="color: magenta;">I WAS STERLING'S RIGHT HAND ARM ... MAN</span></h3> <h5 class="article-posted-date" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #818080; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <br /></h5> <a class="headline" href="http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/03/v-stiviano-20-20-interview-barbara-walters-donald-sterling/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: white; color: #106296; display: block; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></a><br /> <div class="article-content" style="margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div style="padding: 11px 0px;"> <a class="lightbox-link" href="http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_nuanx09f"></a><a href="http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_nuanx09f"><img src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/05/03/050314-stiviano-walters-launch-3.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">She didn't disappoint.  V. Stiviano sat for a bizarre interview with </span></span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">Barbara Walters</strong><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;"> Friday afternoon, in which she proclaimed the Clippers owner is NOT a racist.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">The interview -- which aired on 20/20 Friday night -- is hard to swallow.  V. says she's wearing her famous visor because it somehow masks her pain.  What she doesn't explain is why a person in such pain would seek out every place possible where there were paparazzi, including The Grove, and various restaurants and hot Hollywood clubs.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">There's interesting subtext .. she seems to say </span></span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">Donald Sterling</strong><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">'s friends were jealous of her and were talking smack about the people she hung with ... thugs and the like.  Somehow -- according to her --  that got translated into black people in Sterling's head.  </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">TMZ broke the story ... V. and Sterling showed up at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bev Hills and spent hours together, as Babs and</span></span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;"> Anderson Cooper</strong><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;"> lobbied Sterling to sit for an interview.  Sterling eventually turned them down, saying he was not prepared. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">Poor Anderson.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;"><img alt="0503_sterling_leaving_inf" src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/05/03/0503-sterling-leaving-inf-3.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block;" /> </span></span></div> </div>

V. Stiviano sat for a bizarre interview with Barbara Walters

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