Original sentence: In May 2008, in response to the publication of her former boss Barbara Walter's autobiography Audition, Star released a statement: "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," Jones told US Magazine
Edited sentence: " Barbara refused to dignify the comment with a response.In May 2008, in response to the publication of her former boss Barbara Walter's autobiography Audition, Star released a vitriolic statement: "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," Jones told US Magazine