Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul but before achieving all of that she starred in The Color Purple back in 1985. Her performance as Sofia in the Steven Spielberg-directed film went on to earn her a nomination at the Oscars.
29.09.2023 - 13:25 / etcanada.com
Gayle King is weighing in on the recent high-profile comments made by Cindy Crawford criticizing an early interview with Oprah Winfrey.
In the first episode of the new AppleTV+ docuseries “The Super Models”, Crawford reflected on her very first appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1986, when she was 20, and she calls out Winfrey for making her feel like a “chattel,” or like a piece of property.
King, a close friend of Winfrey’s, spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith on Thursday at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s 2023 Albie Awards in New York City, and she explained that she’d “heard about it” but that she hasn’t yet watched the clip of the interview in question, or the new show.
“I haven’t seen it, and I want to see it, but I’m surprised and a little disappointed,” King shared. “Because I know Cindy’s been on her show many, many, many times and it has always been a pleasant experience, [so] I would hate to think that something that happened years ago [could have bothered her].”
While King reiterated that she wasn’t clear on exactly what happened in the interview, the veteran journalist said, “It’s not Oprah’s thing to humiliate or make anybody feel badly.”
“I have to see it, but, as far as I know, everything is good between Oprah and Cindy,” King added.
In the clip — which was at first taken down from YouTube amid the controversy, but subsequently reposted — Crawford, then just 20 years old, appeared alongside John Casablancas, the model’s rep at Elite Modeling Agency.
After introducing Crawford from nearby DeKalb, Illinois, Winfrey asked Casablancas, “Did she always have this body?”
Winfrey then asked Crawford to “stand up just a moment.”
“Now this is what I call a body,” said Winfrey as she put an emphasis on the word
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criticized how Winfrey handled a past interview.In the series, Crawford recalled going on Winfrey’s talk show in 1986 when she was 20.“Did she always have this body?” questioned Winfrey, 69, after introducing the fashion icon. “Stand up just a moment.”One Crawford awkwardly stood up, Winfrey added: “Now this is what I call a BODY.”“I was like the chattel or a child, be seen and not heard,” Crawford said of the experience.
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