Talker Oprah, where Oprah introduced the half-sister she never knew According to, “Monday’s episode of soon-to-depart CBS Television Distribution The show in which Patricia appeared was not only an emotional success, but a popular one too. Person.'” The two dead children he speaks of are Vernita’s daughter Patricia, who died of causes related to cocaine addiction in 2003, and her son Jeffrey, who died of AIDS in 1989. Has done nothing to feel ashamed of and she is a loving kind of Intend to call Vernita and tell her to hold her head-up high because she It was done out of love and she just wanted a better life for her.’ ‘I With her about the exciting news.’ ‘I knew Vernita’s two deceased children and she sent Oprah to me because she could not cope and was having a hard time.’ ‘I don’t blame her for giving-up Patricia because I know ‘I intend to call Oprah later this evening actually to try and catch-up Sister and I would like to meet her too,’ he said. It’s nothing to be shameful about.’ ‘I’m pleased for Oprah that she discovered that she has a new half ‘Every family has some secrets,’ Vernon Winfrey said today. “Oprah Winfrey’s father has revealed that he only learned about her new half-sister yesterday, along with the viewing public. On her show, she met with Patricia, but also showed some home movies of her, Patricia and Vernita Lee talking, Vernita Lee’s speech was slurred from a stroke, and they got a lot off of their chests.īut, says that Oprah’s father, Vernon Winfrey, is now weighing in on the situation. Patricia then decided to keep trying to get to Oprah herself, which after a DNA test was done and revealed she WAS related to Oprah and Vernita Lee, Oprah finally let Patricia into her life…and onto her show. She said that Patricia tried to contact her and Oprah’s mother, Vernita Lee, by email, but she decided not to respond, thinking it was a prank. Oprah broke the story very suddenly, after months of family meetings deciding whether the secret should get out. The announcement herself – so that the media would not exploit it” Oprah said she never even knew her mother was pregnant…And speaking thereof, Winfrey told her audience that she chose to make Oprah told her studioĪudience this on the show in its final season of making her queen of
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The woman met Winfrey on Thanksgiving Day of last year.” The Washington Post says “Winfrey was just 9 and living with her father when her mother gaveīirth to Patricia and gave her up for adoption. My friends, is the miracle of all miracles,” Winfrey said beforeīringing out the 48-year-old woman, who was identified only as Patricia. Patricia was given up by Winfrey’s mother at birth – a pregnancy the nine-year-old Oprah was not aware of.”ī had to say of the situation: “An emotional Winfrey introduced her newly found sibling yesterday andĮxplained the woman’s persistent quest to find her birth mother. “Given up for adoption 47 years ago, Oprah found out in November last year, that Patricia Lloyd is her younger half-sister. That is what the TimesLive blog had to say about Oprah’s confessed “family secret”: her new half-sister Patricia Lloyd. Well yesterday, Oprah broke the news – she has a half-sister!”
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Secret could be – the only hint, it would be a reunion of some sort. People started coming up with their own suggestions as to what this “Last week, talk show queen Oprah Winfrey said she will reveal aįamily secret on her show – a secret so big, it shook her ‘to the core’.