Barbara Walters announced that she will return as the moderator on ABC's The View on March 4.

"I really miss you," the 83-year-old veteran journalist told the rest of her day time television cast during a live call-in on Tuesday's broadcast.

Walters will return to the show after being treated the past month for a concussion and the chicken pox.

She reportedly hit her head after she fainted while visiting the Washington, D.C. home of the ambassador to Great Britain on Jan 22. The fall led to a cut her on the temple and required six stitches from a local hospital.

Her co-star Whoopi Goldberg announced the following week that Walters was diagnosed with chicken pox in an on-air update to fans.

"You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago, and then was running a temperature, but it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood," Goldberg said on the show at the time. Barbara has the chicken pox. She'd never had it as a child. So now she's been told to rest. She's not allowed any visitors."

But it looks like Walters is ready to get back in her talk show seat.

"Like it or not, I'm coming back on the show again," Walters told her fellow co-hosts by phone this week. "Permanently, however we put it, starting next Monday. No more chicken pox, no more nothing. I'll be back."

The broadcaster explained that she is no longer contagious and stated the producers wanted to make sure she was up for her return.

"They wanted me to have rest and I've had enough rest," said Walters.

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