Oprah Winfrey’s celebrity interviews are up there with the best, most honest and emotional testimonies in television history.
From Tom Cruise’s bizarre jumping up and down on the sofa following his admission he was ‘in love’ with (then girlfriend) Katie Holmes to cyclist Lance Armstrong’s grilling after losing his seven Tour de France titles,Winfrey has seen it all.
However, if there’s one thing the 63-year-old presenter hears time and time again in the ‘4,589 shows and over 37,000 people’ who’s she’s interviewed over the years, it’s their concerns about how she thinks they came across to the public.
‘Everybody that I ever interviewed after every interview at some point somebody would say, “How was that? Was that OK? How’d I do?”‘ she admitted during a panel of OWN’s new reality series, Released.
‘And that is whether it was Barack Obama or Beyoncé or the guy who murdered his kids or the guy who molested kids or somebody who had gone on and lost their family.
‘Everybody just wants to know that you heard me, you saw me, and that what I said mattered,’ Winfrey said.
However, despite hearing these questions every time she interviews someone, the talk show host admitted she was caught off guard when singer Beyoncé showed the same signs of insecurity about the way she presented herself on screen.
‘When I got to Beyoncé, I said, ‘Girrrrrrl, you’re Beyoncé,’ Winfrey joked.
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