Fortune:

On Tuesday, Bartz was in New York, to speak at Citigroup’s (C) technology conference the next day, when she was supposed to call Bostock at 6 p.m. “I called him at 6:06,” she recalls. When he got on the line, she says, he started reading a lawyer’s prepared statement to dismiss her.“I said, ‘Roy, I think that’s a script,'” adding, “‘Why don’t you have the balls to tell me yourself?'”

Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz isn’t one to mince words – she famously told recently-fired TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to f*** off, at his own conference.