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GS: There have been rumors of friction between you and your co-hosts at The View. Did the friction play any part in your decision to move to NGUE?
LL: Not at all. I got along great with them. It's really funny because people love to make assertions and deduce various opinions but I honestly got along so well with every one of my colleagues. But the one host that everyone thought disliked me and whom I disliked, I got along best with. And that was Joy. And it's really really funny because I'd plop myself down on Joy's couch. Joy's had so many years of therapy, so I'd go in and she'd counsel me on all of my problems, whether it be with men or television issues. We would just laugh at the supposed friction. We just thought it was funny.
     It was a tough job because I worked with very vociferous women. Even though I'm a very talkative person, I'm not the kind of person who really presses. I draw the line at certain times and I'm not overly aggressive with my personality or opinion. So it was a difficult job on that front. We only had a few minutes to express our viewpoint but to say that we didn't get along was totally false.

GS: What were your parting words? How did you justify leaving?
LL: Everyone on The View always knew that at some I'm going to want to get back to doing journalism. Everyone knew it from day one. So when I found this dream job at Geographic, I told Barbara who at one time had told me, “Lisa, we'd love to keep you around here forever, but if you do ever find your dream job, tell me and I'll help you.”
     When I found my dream job she said, “Wow! You're actually taking me up on this.” It was actually very harmonious and it surprised me. Barbara is a fellow journalist. She always knew that I would kinda get... not bored, but just a little stagnant.

GS: Why was she doing that show?
LL: See, she was doing 20/20 at the same time. She only did The View like two days a week. Barbara would sometimes not even be on the show for a couple of weeks.
GS: One of the things mentioned on the show was Rick Yune. How did you meet?
LL: Rick and I met at a People magazine conference about minorities in the media.

GS: Why did you split up? It's one of the burning questions of our day.
LL: We had dated for two years. We had gotten to the point where we were making decisions about where to go next and what was going to happen with our careers. We sort of made a mutual decision that neither of us were ready to settle down and weren't ready to make compromises. My job has me traveling constantly. I'm in another country every month. His job as an actor... When he did [Die Another Day], that put such a strain on our relationship. He was in London for six month. I went out there like nine times. It's still extremely difficult. And doing the job I do now, there's no way I can go out there nine times.

GS: So who wrote the Dear John letter?
LL: It was completely mutual. We'd been talking about it for a long time.

GS: Any chance of you getting back together later?
LL: I don't know. I feel very fondly toward him honestly. Rick's my baby.

GS: What kind of relationship do you have with him now?
LL: We don't talk as much as we could because it's difficult. Like when we talk, we want to be with each other. But we do talk from time to time.

GS: Are you dating anyone else now?
LL: Not at all. PAGE 7

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“ When he did [Die Another Day], that put such a strain on our relationship. He was in London for six month. I went out there like nine times.”