Winfrey Vows to Reveal Major Family Secret on Monday Broadcast
- Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:30am by
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has staged many a family reunion on her talk show. But on Monday’s episode, she promises, the drama will be about her.
Winfrey told viewers Thursday that she will have a reunion of her own on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” She wouldn’t say with whom — only that it involves something she’s learned about recently and is known to only a few people close to her.
Note from The Blaze Editor: Watch the tease for Monday’s show here.
“I thought I’d seen it all. But this, my friends, is the miracle of all miracles,” Winfrey says in a promotional spot for the show. The word “miracle” appears on screen, reinforcing her pronouncement.
“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.”
Her production company, Harpo, declined to provide further details Friday.
Given Winfrey’s tangled family history, the possibilities for her reunion are many.
She was born to unmarried teenagers, Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee, and raised at various times by a grandmother, her mother, and her father and stepmother in Mississippi, Wisconsin and Tennessee.
As a teenager, Oprah Winfrey gave birth to a son who died shortly afterward. That chapter of her life was revealed after a family member sold the story to a tabloid in 1990, and Winfrey was said to have felt betrayed.
Using her Chicago-based show to disclose a new wrinkle in her personal history allows her to keep other media from getting hold of it first.
Winfrey has proved herself a master at milking family reunion drama, celebrity and otherwise, on her syndicated talk show that’s in its 25th and final season. This month, she launched a cable channel, OWN.
She reunited more than 100 members of the Osmonds. She brought together both the screen family from “The Sound of Music” and descendants of the real-life members of the musical Von Trapp family portrayed in the film. After decades apart, singer Seal and his foster sister were reunited on Winfrey’s show.
There was also the memorable reunion involving Clemantine and Claire Wamariya, sisters who escaped the Rwandan genocide and later immigrated to America without knowing if their parents had survived. They learned they had, but it wasn’t until they were onstage with Winfrey that the sisters saw their mother and father again.
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Comments (149)
Ron Staiger
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:50amShe’s been having a Ménage à trois with Queen Michelle and Comissar Barack in the Red Room of the White House. How apropos!
Report Post »Voice-O-Reason
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:26amI am trying real hard to withold my excitement…
Report Post »newspapertaxis
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:19amCan they show that on TV, I mean if she “reveals” she’s really a guy?
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 6:07amWouldn’t surprise me in the least. Not that i really give a ratsass.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:03amLooks like Monday will be a brain rot day for you….Like you have much to spare…
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:03amLet me guess… Her and Obama our brother and sister and we both born in Hawaii.
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 5:32amNope!! Her and Dick Cheney are siblings!!!!
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:39amObama is her resurrected dead kid? DUH MESSIAH in DUH Flesh? Surely not? More than likely she will find out Frank Marshall Davis is both their Father’
Report Post »clinicalminded
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:38amShe is actually white and a republican.
Report Post »FireTheLeft
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:33amI know!!! I Know!!! ohhh ohhh… call on me…. She is Obama’s sister and she was born in Kenya too…
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:34amWell that gives her the whole weekend to think something up.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:32am…she has finally come to terms with her irrelevance?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:23am@SCOTT BAKER
Thanks for this one, sir–we’ve had a lot of fun with it, and we needed the levity!
Report Post »Jack Torrance
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:16amNaw. You guys got it all wrong. She’s just found out she is related to some other kind of royalty from 2 million years ago in an earthly continent that is unrecognizable to current testing models. It’s the reason why she is so popular now. High school politics always will rule. It’s the reason her studio audience cries when they are given free junk, I mean consumer goods for which they may need to pay taxes.
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:16amSteadman was actually pregnant and is finally being reunited with the baby who was stolen from him at the hospital at birth.
Report Post »ritamweep
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:15amDon’t tell me, she is one of those people who didn’t know she was pregnant and just thought she had prolonged indigestion.
Report Post »mattp28
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:14amWho really care anyways.
Report Post »o2bme
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:12amI‘m thinking her baby didn’t really die, that is what they wanted her to think when she was 14.
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 5:00am14? Holy Moly that’s young. I think you’ve guessed it, but the child has been living in Africa and he flew over to see her. …wonder if he has a birth certificate . She goofed on backing Obama and she goofed on her new show OWN. She’s got the Obama curse now
Report Post »questionwithboldness
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:10amshe reminds me of Madona, when Madona was doing everything in her power (including nude shots in public, and did you know that the congress library bought that book of hers) to keep the attention on her.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 7:36pmOMG!!!! Oprah’s nude pictures. NO. NO……
Report Post »TRUTHSEEKINGAL
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:03amShe’s endorsing a brilliant community organizer,from her beloved Chicago,for prez..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:50amWell, isn’t that precious?!
Report Post »(That’s Southern lady talk for “Who gives a sh**!”)
Diane TX
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:47amYou heard it here first!
She and Barack Obama are half-brother and sister!
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:55amHow come she wasn’t invited to the Chineese dinner at WH?
Report Post »firstHat
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:39amDiane, we’re on the same page :-) Actually, BO is OW‘s love child who didn’t actually die. Of course this means that OW is older than she pretends to be or BO is younger, but hey, we’ll work that all out :-)
Report Post »EP46
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:50amOr, obama could be her father SINCE we DO NOT know how old he really is …let alone where he was born !!! lol
Report Post »Supreme Galooti
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:39amShe and Keith Olbermann have the same great grandfather, Zachary Lowenstein, who founded the Haarlem Globetrotters.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:46amMaybe she will finally admit about her and Gayle !!
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:38amI’m happy for you :)
Report Post »SPIRIT OF TRUTH
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:36amThis holds my attention about as much as the invent something stupidity.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:35amWho Cares!!!!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:47amWhat if she has Obama’s Birth certificate , and he is her baby brother
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:21amThat’s not only “RATIONAL,” it’s appropriate!
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:35amzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:38amCan’t wait, not.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:40amMy guess …..
Report Post »Stedman is actually Eric Holder
watchmany2k
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:40amI agree, Yawn… about as excitin‘ as watchin’ a tingle go up mathews’
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:48amwow her tv channel sucks so bad she has to tell some deep dark family secret just to boost ratings? I can already see wednesdays news, oprah’s channel still sucks.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:51amCHEEZWHIZ
Report Post »Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:40am
My guess …..
Stedman is actually Eric Holder
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Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:53ami guess this BS is as good a place as any to spam… I ask all of you to hold off on inventing as onbama called on you to do. Hold off on buying american made for now. I am tired of what our country is turning into. Im tired of all this PC and redistribution. The only way we MIGHT get our country back is a real civil war, I hate to say it but hope van jones and that fox piven scum get the chaos they are calling for. Not because I want the change they are calling for, its because I feel our country will never get its head out of its ass and will never be the great nation it once was unless we are hit with a great depression/civil war. They think we will run to the government in the midst of it all, but they are wrong. they would fall hard if they tried going toe to toe with true americans. That is the only way we will ever get rid of these unions, food stamps, welfare, redistribution, lack of border security and other BS waste. That is the only way we will have a respectable defense budget and regain our proper place as the worlds super power. till then fight them with your words and stand against them peacefully because that alone is driving them crazy.
RobertCA
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:01am@ SONDERGARD
Easy easy don’t fall into their trap .
Report Post »Let’s go back to Oprah :)
Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:06amand to the obama lovers no im not calling for violence im just asking people to kick back and let you do what you want for a few. it would not take long for you ******** to create nationwide chaos all on your own as we stand by peacefully.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:06amAs a teenager, Oprah Winfrey gave birth to a son who died shortly afterward.
———–
Maybe he didn’t ?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:08am@SONDERGARD
ROBERTCA is RIGHT!!! The leftists want us to riot. Didn’t you hear Beck this afternoon? Piven is asking why we aren’t angry enough to riot. That’s what they WANT! Why? So obama can declare martial law and take over. The Congress (and ALL THOSE PESKY REPUBLICANS) go HOME for six months. And then, Obama RULES!
Don’t take the bait. CHILL!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:11amSONDERGARD for POTUS!!!
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:12amshe is going to say for the first two years of her life, her family thought she was a table
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:13am@SONDERGARD
Report Post »She NOT a table?
Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:15amdude no, piven wants to know what the socialist punks are not rioting. shes not asking why we are not rioting. and im NOT telling any on our side to riot, im telling them to sit back PEACEFULLY untill the left crash the economy, untill the left riot and untill the left attack us
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:16am@SONDERGARD
Report Post »She’s NOT a table?
Showtime
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:20am@SONDERGARD –
I’m not a dude. I’m a white-haired dudette, I guess.
Your other reply did not come up until I had written mine. That is the reason I said SONDERGARD for POTUS.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:21ampiven is asking why the poor are not mad and why those on food stamps and welfare and not rising up like those in Greece. the ones that are rioting in europe are not on our side those are socialists and thats who she is calling to violence.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:25amMy apologies for the “dude” no disrespect intended. i was just shocked when you said piven is calling for us on the right to riot because she is not
Report Post »101
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:28amOprah real father a WWII Vet. she refused to give paternity test & denies his existence , so now she can claim anybody of her choice family…another meaningless rating grab!
Report Post »newspapertaxis
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 4:01amLet me make a few guesses: Someones getting out of prison to give her a kidney !
Report Post »She to is related to Bill Clinton and George Bush !
She has a twin, whom is a Republican !
Mister President
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 5:28amI doubt anyone really cares about this. I got no problem with Oprah; we don’t agree on everything, but she’s okay. She’s a perfect example of what America can do – take someone from a poor background and make her one of the richest women in the world.
Anyway, anyone else think the comment system on this site sucks? I have no way of knowing when people reply to me, new comments are displayed last, and there’s no way to vote comments up or down. Does this bother anyone else? I e-mailed ‘site support’ to inquire, but I doubt they’ll do anything about it unless a bunch of us do. Reddit.com has an excellent comment system; their content is just liberal bs though.
Have a good day, all.
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 7:09amme, too! yawn.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 7:29amowe bama is her cousin….
Report Post »Highland
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:18amzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Report Post »zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
firstHat
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:45amOh…. The lead from Rush about this story gave me the clue…The son who “died” was actually Obama and that‘s why we’ve never seen the birth certificate :-)
Now iffn we could figure out how she gave birth at 7 years old, this might work….
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:33amShe found out that Obama was not born in America and is sorry she hoodwinked women everywhere to vote him and now she cant get over the fact she F#&%ked a whole nation and she is ashamed and sorry and will leave television and America forever.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:36amShe’s a man which explains why she enjoys women so much.
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:58amThese pathetic lifer bimbo‘s will do anything to rase ratting’s now that her cable network has tanked in less then a month.
Get ready guy’s after her revelation of “POOR OPRAH’S” life (like nobody has a life but her)the American woman will be devistated and demoralized.GOOOOOOOOOOOD LUCK !!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard-the artist {cat folk artist}
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:05amSomeone wake me after the universal collapse or implosion of the cosmos comes about…zzzzz.
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:11amBono dubbed her “Queen of America”. Actually, the lady has done a lot of good deeds. with one exception: supporting Obama. I actually enjoyed her Austrailia shows this week. Thinking of going down under now.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:06am1. Her son didn’t really die, they just told her he did 2. She and Barack are actually half brother and sister. Whatever it is, I won’t be watching.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:25pmLets see Obama is her brother.. Sharpton is her great uncle.. and Jessie Jackson is her real dad.. LOL.. and they are all actually ROYALTY with huge diamond mines in AFRICA..
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 6:59pmHer long thought of dead son is really alive after all these years and they made a connection and he is Barack Obama’s cousin etc etc etc…
I wish her all the best with the new family member in her life now is she going to spread/share the wealth with them???
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 10:44pmWell, let’s see.
Report Post »It‘s can’t be that the ratings are in the tank, because that’s not a secret.
Her and Rosie are twins separated at birth?
Stedman is her first cousin?
She’s gay? That’s it…. a ratings bonanza.