Oprah Tells Barbara Walters: 'I'm Not a Lesbian,' Gayle King Just a Friend
The truth about Oprah Winfrey's friendship with Gayle King, once and for all: "I'm not a lesbian," Winfrey reveals to interviewer extraordinaire Barbara Walters in a new special set to air on ABC tomorrow night at 9PM ET."I'm not even kind of a lesbian," she continues. "And the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying. That's number one. Number two, why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life."
In this video from 'Good Morning America' (via The Hollywood Reporter), Walters teases Thursday's hourlong 'A Barbara Walters Special: Oprah, The Next Chapter' with a clip of Winfrey talking about her long friendship with King.
"She is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves," Winfrey says in the interview. "I don't know a better person. I don't know a better person."
Winfrey gets choked up discussing how much her friend means to her. "It's making me cry because I'm thinking about how much -- I probably have never told her that. Tissue please. I now need tissue. I've never told her that."
Tell us: Will you watch the special tomorrow night?


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