"I'm not a lesbian" says tearful Oprah Winfrey
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Oprah Winfrey told that sheis not lesbian
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LOS ANGELES - A tearful Oprah Winfrey has denied she is a lesbian, saying that constant rumors about her close relationship with a female friend were irritating "because it means that somebody must think I am lying."
The influential TV talk show host addressed her 20-year relationship with Gayle King, and her ongoing partnership with lover Stedman Graham, in an emotional interview with journalist Barbara Walters to be shown on ABC television on Thursday.
"She is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person," Winfrey said of King, fighting back tears.
"It's making me cry because I'm thinking about how much I probably have never told her that. Tissue please," she added.
King and Winfrey, 56, met while working at a local Baltimore TV station in the 1980s and have been inseparable professionally and personally, sparking much media speculation that they are gay.
"I'm not a lesbian. I'm not even kind of a lesbian," Winfrey told Walters, in an excerpt of the interview released on Wednesday. "And the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying. That's number one. Number two...why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life."
Winfrey, whose daily TV chat show is watched by millions in the United States and 145 other countries, said that businessman Stedman Graham was still her lover and mate after more than 20 years together, despite the fact they are now rarely seen in public together.
"I made a conscious effort around 2003, 2004 to pull back on my public appearances with Stedman," she said.
But denying speculation that the pair had split up, she told Walters he was "the love, the lover, the man, the partner, the mate" of her life.
Winfrey is launching a new cable TV network, OWN, in January in a joint venture with Discovery Communications. She will end her ABC TV talk show in May 2011 after 25 years.
-- Reuters
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Originally posted by the Bear:
Oprah Winfrey you also want to laugh at.Really, you're such a loser.
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Originally posted by parn:
Oprah Winfrey you also want to laugh at.Really, you're such a loser.
hey.. she promoted a lot of idiots on her show.. like Jenny McCarthy and her stupid "vaccines cause autism" shit...
i wonder if you should tattoo or brand an L on your forehead being the laughingstock of sgforums
BTW... i'm not laughing at Oprah.. her being rich doesn't make her immune to idiocy... i'm laughing at the NMA vid..
if you don't know the difference... nevermind... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Originally posted by the Bear:
hey.. she promoted a lot of idiots on her show.. like Jenny McCarthy and her stupid "vaccines cause autism" shit...
i wonder if you should tattoo or brand an L on your forehead being the laughingstock of sgforums
BTW... i'm not laughing at Oprah.. her being rich doesn't make her immune to idiocy... i'm laughing at the NMA vid..
if you don't know the difference... nevermind... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hehehe... you're saying you know how to run the Oprah Winfrey show better than her? Pathetic idiot.Ohh... so you have this fear of being the laughingstock of sgforums.
I'm not surprised to know that things that are beyond your understanding are considered idiocy.
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I thought her show was really insightful back on the domestics social issued in the early 2002 - 2005 but in the last 3 to 4 yrs or so it got kinda lost in direction n just not worth watching.
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She's going to retire soon right?
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Animal should be put down like an animal.
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hope she doesnt do lesbian sex on tape
that will be hard to watch
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Originally posted by laurence82:
hope she doesnt do lesbian sex on tape
that will be hard to watch
Omg, by posting this you planted the image in my mind! Arghhh
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Lesbian or not lesbian is not a problem.
Love is universal.