Oprah Winfrey embellished her poor upbringing and made up stories about sexual abuse to boost her ratings, her relatives say in Kitty Kelley’s new biography.
Although Winfrey claims she never had any new dresses or dolls, and had to adopt two cockroaches as pets growing up in rural Mississippi, her cousin contends she was actually relatively “spoiled” as a little girl.
“Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea,” Katherine Carr Esters said. “I’ve confronted her and asked, ‘why do you tell such lies?’ Oprah told me ‘that’s what people want to hear. The truth is boring.’”
In “Oprah,” which goes on sale tomorrow, Kelley also describes how rumors once swirled at ABC about a relationship between Winfrey and Diane Sawyer.
Employees there described “giggly late-night phone calls,” and a series of lavish gifts from Winfrey, including gigantic sprays of orchids and a one-carat diamond toe ring.
Read More: By JEREMY OLSHAN, New York Post
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She lies too? Is she from Kenya also?
Of course she lied, she is a buddy of the worlds greatest narcissist (liar).
I have never liked Oprah since she once opened her garage to sell her clothes instead of giving them to the POOR… There is no shame in lying anymore. Colored skin people in the USA have a chip on their shoulders..and when will it stop…enough of the crying and winning and lying…
Colored People!?!?!?!? Are you nuts Dorothea "Colored" people built and invented damn near everything in this so called "Home of the (FREE)" We have been lied to and crapped on forever.
You sound just like an Ignorant ill-informed neo nazi.
And what did these "colored" people invent?? I'll bet the light bulb..NOPE, the airplane…NOPE, the telephone..NOPE, the car…NOPE, the atomic bomb…NOPE, the lazer..NOPE, hydro electric power..NOPE, the internet…NOPE, the microchip…NOPE, well then maybe welfare and public aid and the cotton gin.
Big Poppa u r a racist , just as my above statements are racist.
She's a liberal, of she lied, what did you expect.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER!!!!
I never liked this fat lady. She used the kindness of wounderfuld American people and became
who she is . Thanks to KITTY KELLY to expose her life. Thanks god she is leaving, I had enough of
her. Have your BILLIONS and leave., if there is any unhapiness in her life she is probably
going to blame it on being BLACK and unjust?????????
She has a little "history" from her time in Nashville on WTVF Channel 5( her first job in the media). Seems she left Nashville because of a problem but I cannot verify so I will not say. I hav met Mr Winfrey and he seems to be a very sweet man
Hello ?!?!?! This was written by Kitty Kelly, people!!! She smears people for a living and makes money doing it. "Colored skin people?" What's up with that talk? Egads! I'm not fond of her, and I am not for Obama, but you people are obviously carrying huge chips on YOUR shoulders and reading the National Enquirer!
wow, don't know her version, but if she lied about sex abuse and potentially identified said assailant, isn't that an opening for a lawsuit?
If one know as much about child abuse as i do then they would have known she was lying from the beginning. Only the IDIOTS believed her.