women in the world, Oprah Winfrey is in the
eye of the storm and the storm is coming
from inside her family. In an exclusive chat
with Daily Mail, Oprah's stepmother, a 66-
year-old Barbara Winfrey, has exposed too
many of Oprah's dirty secrets.
I just wander what Barbara Winfrey stand to
gain by rubbishing her stepdaughter, the
much loved Oprah.
Anyway, read what she has to say and
decide for yourself:
Barbara said the Oprah who is loved by
millions is world apart from the real person
she really is. That Oprah is a manipulative
and high-handed fellow, she treats family like
staff and uses her wealth to control others.
That Oprah Winfrey kicked her out of her
home after 14 years, leaving her flat out
homeless. That Oprah played in a huge part in
'destroying' her marriage to Oprah's father.
She also reveals that Oprah and her
"boyfriend" Stedman Graham are not bound
by romance but a pragmatic cocktail of
shared secrets...
Convenience and money. She describes
Oprah's relationship with close confidante
Gayle King, 59, as bizarre and unhealthy, and
points to it as the reason that neither Oprah
or Gayle are married.
And at the heart of it all, Barbara claims, the
'real Oprah' - hidden behind the image she
projects so well – is a woman unhappy in her
skin and, as Barbara has learned to her cost,
unforgiving to those who inspire her wrath.
Barbara said told DailyMail:
'You find out quickly where your place is with
Oprah and you get in that place and you stay
in that place. My crime, I think, was to talk to
her like a normal person and she didn't like
that one bit. My husband once told me that
just because someone gives you something
does not mean they love you. He was talking
about Oprah.
Her brand is that she's a nice, caring,
generous, giving person. That's not how it is.
She's controlling – it's all about control. She
has confidentiality agreements with pretty
much everybody in her life. She has them
sign their life away and she has them in her
pocket.
Everything comes with stipulations but she
doesn't tell you that and she doesn't tell you
what they are. Some people can have money
and be mentally rich – secure in what they
have I guess. But others, how can I put it…
some people you can't take the ghetto out of.
That's Oprah, it's who she is and where she's
from. She had money, everybody was going to
know it and see it. But she had to be in
control.'
About Oprah throwing her out of her
matrimonial home, according to Barbara, she
wedded Vernon Winfrey, Oprah's father, 15
years after first meeting him - 17 June 2000.
But their marriage fell apart when she
discovered Vernon cheated on her with a
prostitute named 'One Tooth.'
By her own admission Barbara struggled to
cope with Vernon's infidelity. She moved out
of the marital bedroom but she was not, she
insisted, looking to end her marriage.
Barbara said: 'Oprah is a woman who
empowers women to be all they can be, to
stand up against men who mistreat them. If
she was a more decent person she would
realize that what her dad did was very wrong
instead of plotting against me and pushing me
out of the scene.
Vernon had been telling everyone he was
unhappy with the marriage. He told Stedman
and he told Oprah, so she came up with an
escape plan I guess to get me out of the
picture, make all the scandal of what he'd
done go away.
Barbara claimed that Oprah pressed her dad
Vernon to resolve the situation and divorce
her. Even though they're divorced now, they
still speak once a week, so she believes they
would have stayed together had Oprah not
intervened.
Oprah bought a home in Nashville back in
2000 for her dad and her stepmother as a
wedding gift. Barb claims once she and her
now ex-husband decided to split, Vernon
convinced Oprah to take back the home she
had gifted them. Barbara was served with an
eviction notice earlier this month and has
until May 29th to leave the $1.4 million
Nashville home.
I have lost everything. It's not just a house,
this is my home. All my memories are here.
I'm trying to keep it together but there are
some days I just don't understand how I
could have made her so angry that she would
kick me out on the street and think nothing
about it. But that's Oprah – she's judge and
jury.
"I know people have read about this and
thought, Who does she think she is? Why
should she get a million dollar home? But can
you see it's not about that? It's about
everything that went before. Look at how she
has treated me. I laid my head next to her
father for 14 years and she never thought me
worthy of talking to."
This is just Part One of the revelations from
Barbara, Oprah's stepmother. Part Two
coming...
#FamilyInTrouble
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