Posted on 04/13/2010 1:11:21 PM PDT by longtermmemmory
Oprah Winfrey -- who built a billion-dollar empire persuading everyone from celebs to average Joes to reveal the truth about themselves -- is a big phony when it comes to her own past, an explosive new book charges.
Winfrey's relationship with longtime "love" Stedman Graham, her reputed dirt-poor upbringing in rural Mississippi, her rumored lesbian crushes on women such as Diane Sawyer -- all are stories she has manipulated for decades in the name of sensational ratings, according to writer Kitty Kelley's latest unauthorized biography "Oprah."
The much-anticipated book details how:
* Winfrey concocted stories about sexual abuse she suffered as a child -- and grossly exaggerated the poverty she was brought up in.
* She went to great lengths to conceal her "lesbian affairs" -- including hefty payoffs -- and publicly attached herself to Graham to appear more normal to her audience of housewives.
* She lavished romantic gifts -- including a diamond toe ring -- on ABC talking head Diane Sawyer.
* Winfrey sold her body to earn extra money and has even described herself as a teen "prostitute."
* She doesn't know the true identity of her biological father.
* Her relationship with her own mother is so cold that Winfrey won't even let the older woman have her phone number.
Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Miss., in 1954, and, the way she likes to tell it, she was so impoverished that she never had any new dresses or dolls and had to adopt two cockroaches as pets, naming them Melinda and Sandy.
But her family says that's nonsense.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I heard she did the nasty with John Tesh.
Anyone think she and the Fuhrer have a lot in common??? Just asking.
Oprah is an entertainer.
Makes her a natural friend for Hussein!
had to adopt two cockroaches as pets,
That’s no big deal, I’ve got two, their names are
Hillery! and Nanzi.
Mississippi home town girl ping
Well....this is certainly entertaining.
Kitty Kelley has no life.
She doesn’t entertain me.
FUOW
If Smarmy Kitty could get away with writing that book on Frank Sinatra, and she did, then Oprah Winfrey is certainly not off limits.
Oprah used the Script of the movie THE COLOR PURPLE, to craft the tales of her upbringing.
What a phony hypocrite!
Brain damage at birth is a terrible thing. Being dropped on her head from a third floor window didn’t help much either. I guess her parents moving away while she was at school and not leaving a forwarding address was enough to make the good girl go bad.
Who cares??
Militant
I’m trying to think of something I could care less about.
Nope, can’t do it.
You are naive. Winfrey has the backing of the liberals.
70% of blacks born don't have "fathers"....they're illegitimate and destined to mostly live off others' earnings, with no father's funding their support.
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/01/demoralizing.html
As a working man, I haven’t seen much daytime television and am only vaguely aware of who this ‘Oprah’ is, so I’m afraid her past, present and future doesn’t really hold much interest for me, as lascivious and decadent as it may be. That said, I’m not too terribly sympathetic when the rich and famous get whacked over the head with their sordid past and indulgent lifestyles, as this kind of comes with the territory, doesn’t it?
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