OPRAH AND FAMILY

About a week ago, I was sitting at a table with people who started talking about Oprah. The people discussing her ended up saying that they felt like she wasn't all that nice and, in fact, was a "lonely" person. I was a little bit confused. I've been watching (not always consistently) her for 25 years and I've never had the impression that Oprah was mean or lonely.

Of late, many bring up her relationship with her relatives as a case against Oprah. I think this is really unfair. So, she doesn't give her mother her personal phone number. Well, maybe she doesn't have the greatest relationship with her mother. Just because someone brings you into the world doesn't mean they are going to do right by you. So, she fired her cousin from her company years ago, in which the cousin claims someone told her Oprah didn't like her "Jesus talk." Oprah didn't tell her that! Instead of taking the word of a possibly disgruntled employee, she should have talked to Oprah directly.

In 2007, Oprah's cousin, Kenneth Winfrey, wrote an article about his relation to her, answering questions that people usually have about him and his famous cousin. It is so strange to me that people always tell him that he should ask his cousin for money when he hits a tough spot. I commend him for saying that he doesn't feel "entitled" to her money. To read the full article, click here.