NEW YORK -- Sherri Shepherd, a co-host on ABC's "The View," said in a new interview with a Christian magazine that one of her spiritual advisors could "save" fellow talker Barbara Walters.

“Oh sometimes I say, 'Lord, Juanita Bynum or Joyce Myers would be so good at this table.' They could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved," Shepherd told Precious Times magazine.

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Wednesday on "The View," Shepherd clarified some statements that she made to the black Christian women's magazine. Shepherd said that she was joking and clearly it didn't come off the way she wanted it to. She said that she called up Walters, who is vacationing in France, and apologized for any offense.

Shepherd said that Walters laughed and shot back: "Sherri, I'm already in heaven. I'm in Paris."

In the interview with the magazine, Shepherd also admitted she's had "more abortions than" she "would like to count." Wednesday, Shepherd also addressed that statement and said she carried a lot of shame and guilt about it, until a woman at a conference said, "Sherri, when you get to heaven all your babies are going to be there."

Shepherd said that she was in no way trying to be flippant about abortions.

Shepherd also told Precious Times magazine stories of abusive relationships and drug abuse, which occurred more than a decade ago.

"In 1993, my mother was dying from diabetic complications. My sister was heavy into drugs, and we would have to go and get her from crack houses," Shepherd told Precious Times.

Shepherd, 41, told the magazine that she had low self-esteem and "just wanted to die."

"I felt if someone killed me, it wouldn’t even make a difference," said Shepherd, now a mother of a 2-year-old boy. "But God showed me that it would make a difference."