[ 2011-05-10 ]

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey: I grew up feeling nobody loved me
In the June 2011 issue of O Magazine, Oprah
Winfrey shares some of her memories over the 25
years she’s hosted “The Oprah Winfrey
Show.”

The new issue features two covers as well as a
conversation between Winfrey and her
editor-at-large Gayle King.Regarding the early
years of the show, Oprah shared, “The first few
years when the staff was still less than 12
people, I used to hang out with them because we
were doing live shows, and we’d be done by 10
a.m.

We had four people in four chairs, and that was
it. Those were the days where I’d be the one
taking the lunch order. I would walk around
asking, ‘Okay, is it gonna be Taco Bell today,
or are we doing Wendy’s?’ And then we’d go
out and party at night.”

Along the way, Winfrey says she’s received some
fabulous keepsakes. “The one thing I’ll take
is the statue of Sojourner Truth that Jamie Foxx
gave me for my birthday last year…Even in my
youth, she was the historical figure I most
identified with. Because even though she was born
a slave, she was able to speak. She could
communicate with people from all different
backgrounds.

She could speak to the most disenfranchised
groups, and she could also speak to Congress. She
was invited to the White House by Lincoln. Jamie
didn’t know that I’d been reciting her
“Ain’t I a Woman?” speech my whole life, or
that when I die, I want to go out like a comet in
the sky, which is something she said about her own
life. But he gave me that statue, and it will come
with me when I go.”

And when she finally says farewell, Oprah will
rejoice in the show’s legacy. “I genuinely
feel appreciated and loved by this audience that
has grown up with me. Which, for me, is a huge,
huge, huge accomplishment.

Because I grew up feeling the opposite of that.
Feeling a void, as a little girl, feeling that
really nobody loved me. So to be surrounded by
this, that is what I’m going to feel. And when
you see the tears on the last show, that’s what
those tears will be about. Those tears will not be
about sadness.”

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