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      *Two minutes into Wednesday's broadcast of "The View," co-host Sherri Shepherd began addressing the controversial quotes that emerged from her interview with black Christian women's magazine, Precious Times.

       It was reported Monday that she told the publication she has had "more abortions than I'd like to count" and that she wished her co-host Barbara Walters could be "saved." Yesterday morning, she apologized to Walters, who was not present during the broadcast, and clarified her remarks about having many abortions.

       She said the reporter started out by asking how she deals with her fears as a member of "The View."      

       Shepherd explained Wednesday: "My joke was "Oh sometimes I say 'Lord, Juanita Bynum or Joyce Meyers would be so good at this table. And they could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved.'  It was a joke that I made. It didn't come off the way I wanted it to."       

       "I called Barbara in France and I told her [about the quote], and Barbara laughed," said Shepherd. "She didn't ask me to say this, but I do want to say Barbara, if I offended you in any way, I apologize. I love you."      

       As for her other headline-making remark about having multiple abortions, Shepherd explained that she intended only to encourage women who are going through the guilt and shame of abortions by sharing her own experiences.       

       "[The reporter] didn't print the entire quote," she clarified. "So all it said was, "I've had more abortions than I can count."

       She shared the rest of her quote, telling her co-hosts: "I had suffered from a lot of shame and guilt, and I didn't know how to forgive myself, and a wonderful woman at one of the women's conferences I speak at came to me and said, 'Sherri, you know when you get to heaven all your babies are going to be there saying, 'Hi momma.'"      

       "[The reporter] didn’t print the whole thing, but I just wanted people to know I wasn't being flippant about abortions," she added. [View clip below.]

Sherri Shepherd Explains Comments in Precious Times Interview

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