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The rumors have been around for years. She even made light about them recently. But Oprah Winfrey has once again stated flatly: "I'm not a lesbian."
"I'm not even kind of a lesbian," the talk-show queen, 56, tells Barbara Walters in an upcoming interview on ABC. "And the reason why [the rumor] 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."
The rumors have focused on Winfrey's friend Gayle King. But Winfrey says that relationship is extremely close in a whole different way.
"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," Winfrey says while choking up.
"It's making me cry because I'm thinking about ... how much ... I probably have never told her that. Tissue, please. I now need tissue. I've never told her that."
The occasion for the interview, airing Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on ABC, is the end of Winfrey's syndicated show next May and the beginning of her new cable network – OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network.
Source: People
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By: DOWNTOWN DONNY on 12/08/2010 9:50PM
Opie if you are not, then why do you have to defend it. I would say 'whatever you think', and go on with my life.
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By: AL on 12/09/2010 9:21AM
(L)OOK!
(E)verybody
(S)hould
(B)elieve
(O)prah
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By: David on 12/08/2010 10:34PM
I'll be glad when this fake crying black man hating heifer ass is off the air. If she is a lesbian all she can be accused of is having bad taste in women. But I guess seeing what Oprah looks like beggars cant be choosers.
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By: nomoxcuses on 12/08/2010 11:28PM
Ouch!! LOL
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By: miles davis on 12/08/2010 10:37PM
She's lying!!
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By: Alie on 12/09/2010 9:17AM
It's worrying when even her father believes it! i mean he should know he has known her all her life and they barley speak he helped co-write a off the record book, always be weary of a women who wants to be closer than a friend!That doesn't mean that she can't repent or gayle for that matter, but i know for years gayles ex husband couldn't stand Oprah
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By: alie on 12/10/2010 2:23PM
Always remember she is an actress, so they can fool anybody, i watched a clip of it it's either a stella or oscar performance, but if you lie it will always come to pass!
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By: Steve on 12/09/2010 12:49AM
who cares,that her biz
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By: slatti89 on 12/09/2010 1:18AM
who cares,thats her biz
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By: Paul K on 12/09/2010 12:51AM
Where did this rumor even come from? Just because she hangs with her girlfriend, Gail alot makes her a lesbian??? There are plenty of unmarried celebrities. That doesn't make them gay. Black people are so quick to think everybody is supposed to be fvcking somebody.
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