Catch Oprah breaks down during interview that asked about lesbian rumours

I do not snivel. And I do not have afternoons free to cry with Oprah. But when Oprah cries not as interviewer but as interviewee, I go running to YouTube to Catch some weepie Winfrey. Ouch. 

So what gets the mistress of talk show empathy to break down and ask for a tissue to wipe large tears rolling down? The other TV queen Barbara Walters and her very direct question about Oprah's relationship with her best friend Gayle King.   

Barbara was to the point in asking Oprah, in fetching red, what gossip rags have nudged and winked about for years. All those lesbian tales. "I am not lesbian. I am not even kind of lesbian," said Oprah. "I have said we are not gay enough times. That irritates me because it means somebody must think I'm lying. That is not the way I run my life."

But it was not the "lesbian" that made her cry. The tears came before that, when Walters asked her to describe King. The woman who has had words on the ready for over a quarter of a century, was quite at a loss as she gathered her thoughts for what was clearly going to be an important answer. And then she said about King, "She is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend everyone deserves. I do not know a better person. I do not know a better person."

Somewhere in that tribute, the request for tissue and Walters drily asking why the tears. Oprah said, "Shoot, I wasnt going to cry here. It's making me cry because I'm thinking how much I probably never told her that. I've never told her that."

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The ABC interview is an hour-long special that journeys through the last 25 years of Oprah's spectacular life - both on the telly and off it. It airs in the US tonight.

Oprah Winfrey ends her talk show next September. But this year is not merely about endings. There are beginnings planned too. Like Oprah's new network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), that shall launch in January. There is a  buzz that Gayle King shall have her talk show on that network. For many years now she has edited O, The Oprah Magazine and has primarily been famous for being the best friend of one of the richest women in showbiz.

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