Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King addresses the longstanding rumors that they are in a lesbian relationship.
Both Winfrey and Gayle sat down with Melinda French Gates for her “Moments That Make Us” series.
When asked about being open with their friendship and the rumors, Winfrey expressed, “I think we’ve shared pretty much everything and I would have to say, it wasn’t even a matter of navigation,” Winfrey said. “You know, for years, people used to say we were gay, and listen, we were up against that forever. And people still may think it.”
King added, “I used to say Oprah, ‘You gotta do a show on this, because it’s hard enough for me to get a date on Saturday night with people thinking we’re gay.’ Because if we were gay, we would tell you.”
Oprah says she and King’s friendship has worked is because “Gayle is happier, not happy, but happier for me for any kind of success or victory or challenge I get through than I am for myself. And I feel as happy as she does — I can’t be happier than, cannot surpass Gayle. You cannot out-happy her. I am equally as happy for her.”
Directly addressing the lesbian rumors, Oprah says, “Maybe people aren’t accustomed to seeing women with this kind of truth bond.”
“We bonded because we had very like philosophies about people… we were so in sync about so many different things,” King said, with Winfrey adding, “And philosophies about approaching life and approaching our job because we were both at the same job.”
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