Oprah Winfrey has a secret, but not for long.
On yesterday’s “Oprah Winfrey Show,” the talk-show queen and cable-network empress planned a reunion that will revealed a “family secret” she’s kept for months and only a few people close to her know.
“I thought I’d seen it all. But this, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles,” Winfrey said in a promo spot last week.
“I was given some news that literally shook me to my core. This time, I’m the one being reunited,” she said. “I was keeping a family secret for months, and on Monday you’re going to hear it straight from me.”
She doesn’t say with whom she’ll be reuniting. You’ll have to watch the show for that.
Her company, Harpo Productions, declined to provide further details Friday, an Associated Press story said.
Winfrey was born in Mississippi to unwed teenagers Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee, and was raised at various times by a grandmother, her mother, and her father and stepmother in Mississippi, Wisconsin and Tennessee, the AP said.
In 1990, a family member told a tabloid that at age 14, Winfrey gave birth to a baby boy, but the baby died in the hospital. Winfrey, 56, discussed the pregnancy last week on CNN’s “Piers Morgan’s Tonight.”
The AP also noted that in last year’s unauthorized biography “Oprah,” writer Kitty Kelley alleged that Vernon Winfrey is not Oprah’s biological father. In the book, Kelley also said she would keep the father’s identity a secret until Winfrey herself learns it.
In other Winfrey news, first lady Michelle Obama returned to her former hometown of Chicago on Friday to tape an appearance on Winfrey’s show. It’s part of Obama’s continuing campaign to draw attention to military families’ plight.
In the interview, airing Thursday, Obama will discuss plans to “launch a comprehensive national campaign in the coming months to recognize, honor and provide ways for everyone to step up and answer the call,” a White House source told the Chicago Sun-Times. Former NBC newsman Tom Brokaw and Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward will also appear, as well as a military family that will share its story.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” airs weekdays at 4 p.m. on WEWS Channel 5.
source: cleveland.com
