Sherri Shepherd Reveals Barbara Walters Advised Her To Change Her Voice During ‘The View’

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Sherri Shepherd is looking back on her time at “The View”. The actress was a cohost on the daytime talk show from 2007-2014, during the years Barbara Walters led the panel, making guest appearances in the years after.

Though she recently launched her own talk show , “Sherri”, Shepherd admitted she owes a lot of her training to her time on “The View”. READ MORE: Meghan McCain Fires Back At Sherri Shepherd’s Ongoing Criticism: ‘There’s No Need To Be Nasty’ “I cried for three years,” she said of her time under “taskmaster” Walters to Bevy Smith for a SiriusXM Town Hall for “Radio Andy”. “Don’t get me wrong.

It was the best experience that I’ve ever had. It was literally my training. This is why my voice is so deep, right now from being on ‘The View.'” When Shepherd would do her introduction for the episode, her voice was quite high at the beginning of the show. “And Barbara was like, ‘Put some bass in your voice because that, that is what makes you appear confident.

Slow down.'” she recalled. The comedian was under the impression she was on the panel to make jokes, but Walters wanted all of her cohosts to be informed. “‘You’re here to be curious about people.’ So she was a very hard taskmaster,” she explained. “And she got on me because I know that she loved me.