Kat Von D walks off TV interview

Tattoo artist Kat Von D said that she walked off the set of "Good Day L.A." Wednesday morning after the show ignored her request not to mention her breakup with fiance Jesse James during her introduction -- a contention the show denies.

"When we booked the segment there was only one caveat," the TV show posted on its KTTV web page. "We agreed to NOT talk about Sandra Bullock or Michelle McGee. If one of the stipulations was to NOT talk about her breakup with Jesse James, we never would have agreed to the booking. However, that was never requested."

Von D, 29, who announced that she and James split this week, told TMZ.com she had "very politely" informed the producers not to mention James in her introduction, which used a TLC clip promoting the fifth-season premiere of her reality show, "LA Ink." The clip depicted her getting a tattoo of James' face as a child.

Her departure was followed by a series of dueling tweets between herself and co-host Jillian Barberie Reynolds -- who read Von D's first Twitter message aloud on the show and then addressed Von D on air: "Your company . . . sent the clip of your reality show with Jesse in it. . . . If you're putting your life on a reality show and then you're not willing to talk about it, it seems kind of . . . "

"Contradictory. Hypocritical," co-host Steve Edwards chimed in.

A producer on the show told RadarOnline.com that Von D behaved unprofessionally. "There was no way we weren't going to ask her about the breakup. She knows our show and she's coming on for publicity and she just walked off." Von D's representative did not return Newsday's request for comment.