Barbara Walters' daughter was stopped and arrested in Florida for a DUI offense after shouting at officers who handcuffed her boyfriend. Jacqueline Walters Danforth was adopted as an infant by Barbara Walters and the late Broadway producer Lee Guber more than 40 years ago.

Barbara Walters' biography discussed in length over Danforth's troubled childhood. In a Dateline interview, Walters divulged that her daughter (Danforth) had become a runaway 25 years ago, but Walters did not let this go public until 2003. The broadcast journalist claims that the attention would probably have worsen the situation.

When Danford was 14, she would sneak into the Studio 54 nightclub with fishnet stockings and leather miniskirts. She became addicted to drugs, used pot and methamphetamine frequently, and was expelled from her school. When Danford spoke of that time, she said, "I'm lucky I didn't die."

Walters had sent her to enroll in another school in Idaho, hiring an ex-Green Beret to make sure that she must arrive.

Danforth had recently started a wilderness school for at-risk girls roughly 500 miles from Times Square in Manhattan, New York.

According to the arrest report, the 44-year-old was taken into custody and was released with $1000 bond a few hours after the arrest. The Breathalyzer revealed that her blood-alcohol level was at 0.218, two times the legal limit, when she was driving her Sports Utility Vehicle with a boyfriend in Naples without lights early Sunday. She had not had any previous DUI offenses as an adult.