Star Jones Reynolds, 'I Wanted to Tell The Truth'

Star Jones Reynolds may be off of The View, but the TV co-host isn't fading away quietly. Reynolds appeared on CNN's Larry King Live last night to set the record straight and tell the truth about what really went down surrounding her departure from The View

According to CNN, " Star Jones Reynolds says she decided to make a surprise announcement that she was leaving "The View" because she wanted to tell the truth about her departure." During her appearance on Larry King Reynolds was quoted as saying, " My viewers, our viewers, deserve the truth and I gave it to them." CNN also reports that Reynolds told Larry King that she knew as far back as April 21 that she wouldn't be returning to The View.

Since Tuesday, when Star Jones Reynolds announced, on the air that she wouldn't be returning to the show, the truth has been slowly coming together. As People, reports Reynolds revealed to Larry King that her bosses at ABC encouraged her to lie and make up a story regarding her sudden departure from The View. Reynolds was quoted as saying, "They said, 'You can make up a story, " adding, "The audience didn't deserve for me to make up a story. That's not fair." On the topic of her falling out with Barbara Walters, Reynolds was quoted to say, "I will not denigrate Ms. Walters. That's not who I am." "I have learned from that woman ... as much about television as I did about the law from my mentor, the late Johnnie Cochran."

So the question remains, who's story holds true? So far Barbara Walters and the producers of The View have yet to respond to Reynold's claims of being told to lie. In a report on Hollywood.com, "After Jones Reynolds' outburst on Tuesday--Walters claimed the announcement was supposed to take place yesterday morning--she was asked not to return. " Quoting from her appearance on Larry King Live last night, Reynolds said, "I really want you to look back to when it was first decided, I was told 'You'll be able to leave on your own terms.' The terms I chose was to tell the truth. I mean I'm not used to being blasted for telling the truth." Looking at how this whole mess went down, Star Jones Reynolds also told Larry King, "I'm sad that the platform that I helped to build was used in a way to attack me professionally."

Star Jones started out in television on Court TV back in 1991 as a legal commentator during the William Kennedy Smith rape trial. She went on to be a legal correspondent for NBC's The Today Show and NBC Nightly News before heading to co-host The View for nine years. She is also credited with being the only reporter to interview O.J. Simpson during his civil trial.

[Additional Sources: CNN, People, Hollywood.com]