Oprah is like Larry King — they both fancy themselves as journalists. All they know how to do is ask celebrities about their latest stints at rehab.
I thought it was funny that she did not know a drinker could quit cold turkey. My father used to booze it up in his youth; then one day, he told my mother he quit. Mom didn’t believe him, but he did it and he stayed sober for the rest of his life. Dad might have been short and about 130 pounds soaking wet, but he was tough when he needed to be. He tackled drinking as a challenge and he never shrank from a challenge. A lot of people are that way. Oprah doesn’t see that sort of character in all those Hollywood types she associates with.
My father quit smoking the same way. Just decided he didn't want to be a smoker any more, and stopped.
It is not only the character, didn’t “Bill W” come out of the 30’s, about same time the “progressives” gave us prohibition or wwas winding it down? One succeeded by the Grace of God, while the other tried to play Him. The later failed, and being a progressive subconciously that must grate at Oprah, because given what historians are now saying about FDR, maybe “Bill W” was one of the greatest things to come out of that era. It just so happens maybe GWB followed “that model”.