So what happened between Barbara Walters and Clint Eastwood? The flirty interview took place on a picnic bench in 1982, with Walters commenting on Eastwood's mysterious nature, "You would drive me nuts and I would drive you crazy." Eastwood responded, "Well, we could try it and see if it worked out." A visibly caught-off-guard Walters said, "We'll start with this interview. If this is okay, and we get somewhere, well, maybe we'll do another interview." She added, cutting the discussion short, "I think we'll stop and reload." Stop the press, literally!

”This is a sad love story... He was very flirtatious and I was very taken," Walters later recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "He asked me if I wanted to have dinner [at the time] and I said 'No I have to work, I don't mix business with pleasure." Can you believe?! Walters added, "I could have been Mrs. Clint Eastwood!” 

Walters even hoped there was still a chance at love decades later when she attended the 2014 premiere of Eastwood's Jersey Boys. "So this was 30 years ago [now]...I'd heard he'd gotten divorced, I'm divorced, I thought maybe it's not too late. I'm not kidding. I really did," she told Fallon. "I put on the right outfit. The false eyelashes... My big chance. He was... polite. What's that expression? He was just not into me." 

Aw! What an adorable potential couple. Guess hindsight is... 20/20! 

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