‘Price Is Right’ model Holly Hallstrom eviscerates late host Bob Barker: ‘I hate that man’

“Price Is Right” exemplary Holly Hallstrom railed against nan crippled show’s precocious big Bob Barker while discussing her firing Wednesday.

The 73-year-old, who participated successful E!’s caller “Dirty Rotten Scandals” docuseries, declared that she “hate[s] that man” successful a caller interview.

Hallstrom explained to People that she recovered herself connected Barker’s “s–t list” erstwhile she “refused to attest successful tribunal … connected [the emcee’s] behalf” erstwhile Dian Parker sued him for intersexual harassment successful 1994.

“I wanted thing to do pinch it,” Hallstrom continued. “I was nan only 1 [of ‘Barker’s Beauties’] that was asked to springiness a deposition and did not. I didn’t want to perpetrate felony perjury, which is precisely what it would person been if I gave a testimony.”

While Hallstrom believes this was nan “final straw” for Barker, she noted that nan web “could not occurrence [her] for that.”

She claimed, “Instead, Barker said I was overweight, and that’s why I was disconnected nan show. I was not amazed that he utilized that arsenic nan excuse, nan reason, nan justification for firing me.”

While Barker later denied this, Hallstrom insisted, “How tin you opportunity I was not fired because of my weight erstwhile I was trim retired of 50 percent of nan show, and erstwhile I was connected camera, I was hidden distant down automobiles and ample appliances because of my weight problem?”

Hallstrom was “devastated” and “didn’t want to retire,” telling nan outlet she had “no choice” but to time off successful 1995 aft 20 years because Barker “wanted [her] gone.”

When Hallstrom, who had not signed a non-disclosure agreement, said retired upon her exit, Barker revenge a defamation suit — which led Hallstrom to hold until his 2023 death to reside their falling retired further.

“He … dragged maine done tribunal for 10 years until I had thing left,” she recalled, noting that she subsequently sued Barker for malicious prosecution.

“Even though he lost,” Hallstrom said, referencing their out-of-court settlement, “he would’ve done it again successful a heartbeat.”

Since Barker’s passing astatine 99 of earthy causes, Hallstrom has recovered freely sharing her communicative a “liberating” experience.

She gushed, “They opportunity nan truth will group you free. Man, it group maine free. Absolutely, 100 percent.”

During her quality connected “Dirty Rotten Scandals” Wednesday, Hallstrom dubbed Barker a “narcissistic egomaniac” who couldn’t beryllium “reined in” aft his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, mislaid her conflict to lung cancer.

She claimed that aft a “long play of mourning,” he “was unleashed” and “all of a abrupt … became Mr. Man About Town.”

Barker subsequently moved connected pinch longtime girlfriend, Nancy Burnet, and allegedly had an matter pinch Parkinson during their romance.

The ungraded “took a toll” connected nan show, Hallstrom told viewers, explaining, “There was fighting connected nan sets, yelling, and it was massive. And it ultimately, I think, destroyed ‘The Price is Right.’”