Oprah Winfrey: I Was 'Devastated' by Relative's Betrayal
STAINLESS said
16:11 01/21 2007
Oprah Winfrey was shattered when a relative revealed in 1990 that she'd had a baby at 14, she says in the new issue of her magazine.
The February issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, has the theme, "My first" – and Winfrey writes about her first betrayal: A family member's revelation to the National Enquirer that Winfrey gave birth as a teen to a baby who died in the hospital weeks later.
Winfrey writes that the relative, whom she doesn't name but whom the Associated Press identifies as her half-sister, Patricia Lloyd, "sat in a room, told them the story of my hidden shame and left their offices $19,000 richer."
When she found out, Winfrey writes, according to the New York Post, "I took to my bed and cried for three days. I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed. How could this person do this to me?"
Before the article came out, she says, "Only my family and closest friends knew. I would tell no one until I felt safe enough to share my dark past: the years I was sexually abused, from age 10 to 14, my resulting promiscuity as a teenager, and finally, at 14, my becoming pregnant."
She worried that if anyone found out about the pregnancy, it would damage her career: "I imagined that every person on the street was going to point their finger at me and scream, 'Pregnant at 14, you wicked girl ... expelled!' "
But in fact, she says, "No one said a word ... not strangers, not even people I knew. I was shocked. Nobody treated me differently. For 20 years, I had been expecting a reaction that never came.
"And I soon realized that having the secret out was liberating. ... What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all."
K_SEXY said
16:39 01/21 2007
dats why 50cent dont like har
Crazypickney said
23:31 01/21 2007
Its really nice that her secret was revealed and she got through it. Some people are still living in the shame of their past life with no hopes of going on.
I dont know exactly how she felt, because the words cant begin to give the detail of those 72hrs that she spent feeling bad, but I'm glad that she had the strength to get over it and move on.
Crazypickney said
23:31 01/21 2007
K_SEXY wrote:dats why 50cent dont like har
Whats the real story why he doesnt like her? I heard something about she "turning white" or something like that.
K_SEXY said
20:16 01/27 2007
I really dont know either, just heard he doesnt like her.
The February issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, has the theme, "My first" – and Winfrey writes about her first betrayal: A family member's revelation to the National Enquirer that Winfrey gave birth as a teen to a baby who died in the hospital weeks later.
Winfrey writes that the relative, whom she doesn't name but whom the Associated Press identifies as her half-sister, Patricia Lloyd, "sat in a room, told them the story of my hidden shame and left their offices $19,000 richer."
When she found out, Winfrey writes, according to the New York Post, "I took to my bed and cried for three days. I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed. How could this person do this to me?"
Before the article came out, she says, "Only my family and closest friends knew. I would tell no one until I felt safe enough to share my dark past: the years I was sexually abused, from age 10 to 14, my resulting promiscuity as a teenager, and finally, at 14, my becoming pregnant."
She worried that if anyone found out about the pregnancy, it would damage her career: "I imagined that every person on the street was going to point their finger at me and scream, 'Pregnant at 14, you wicked girl ... expelled!' "
But in fact, she says, "No one said a word ... not strangers, not even people I knew. I was shocked. Nobody treated me differently. For 20 years, I had been expecting a reaction that never came.
"And I soon realized that having the secret out was liberating. ... What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all."
Its really nice that her secret was revealed and she got through it. Some people are still living in the shame of their past life with no hopes of going on.
I dont know exactly how she felt, because the words cant begin to give the detail of those 72hrs that she spent feeling bad, but I'm glad that she had the strength to get over it and move on.