Oprah Winfrey: 'I'm Not Even Kinda Lesbian'
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In an hourlong ABC interview with Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey again denies any sort of romantic relationship with BFF Gayle King."Describe that friendship to me," Walters says.
After a long pause, an emotional Winfrey answers: "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. I don't know a better person."
Choking back tears and eventually beginning to cry, Oprah continues: "It's making me cry because I'm thinking about ... how much ... I probably have never told her that."
See the interview clip and hear O's exact words on the lesbian rumors
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Walters says the sit-down with Winfrey is, "Probably the most personal interview I've seen her do. I've never seen her quite as revealing throughout the interview."
Despite the emotional and personal nature of the conversation, Oprah remains as pointed as ever in her speech. "I have said we are not gay enough times. I'm not lesbian … I'm not even kinda lesbian," Winfrey says. "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."
"Every time we showed up in public... there'd be another exploitive story," Oprah says. "So I made a conscious effort around 2003, 2004, to pull back on my public appearances with Stedman."
Describing live-in significant other Stedman, Winfrey deems him: "The love ... the lover ... the man ... the partner ... the mate ... I do not know of another man on this planet who could have lived this life with such dignity, with such grace and such respect and humility in it. And still hold his own and be his own."
Winfrey also speaks about never having children and fears about starting her own network, the impetus for her concluding 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' after this season, the 25th for the daily talk show.
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Countless everyday people, celebs, politicos, etc, etc have all lied about being gay, so does that make Oprah's denials any more {or less} true?!
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I really don't see what the big fuss is over celeberity bedrooms. They're just regular people like the rest of us… just with a lot of money is all.
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Oprah has told the world she was abused as a child by familymembers, got pregnant, lost the baby, and was very promiscuous as a teen.
Everybody knows about her struggles with weight.
I think if she was a lesbian, she would have told -
I'm not so sure.
The things she told us are in the very distant past, so maybe she doesn't mind sharing those things. Then again, it could all have been made up to justify her spot THE only valid chat show host. Another thing was she was battling Roseanne for the pot of TV's greatest diva. Roseanne already came out with all her stuff, most of which Oprah claimed to share.
If you watched her show from the beginning, you would have noticed that she often had a lot of openly gay people on her show, then suddenly they were all gone. You can't say the network forced her to do it as she was quite powerful at the time and could easily have told them to fuck off. So that laves me to wonder why she pushed all the gays off her show. It's as if she was trying to say "see, no gay people here, so I can't be a lesbian".
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I don't think she would come out if she's Lesbian or Bi, at least not while she has plans to continue her show.
That sad fact is, her show would most likely be boycotted by droves of nuts so her ratings would plummet. The audience she attracts is primarily family orientated, and we all know what "Family Values" means to most people. It usually goes hand in hand with being anti-gay.
