Gayle King is reflecting on the rumors that she and Oprah Winfrey are romantically involved.
On the latest episode of Call Her Daddy, the 71-year-old CBS Mornings host was asked about the 72-year-old media mogul and the rumors they used to face.
Gayle King admitted the rumors that she was in a relationship with Oprah did bother her
Gayle said, “It used to really bother me. I was recently divorced…The National Enquirer did a story… that’s the reason for the divorce, because they’re secretly gay. Number one, if we were gay, we would tell you because, believe me, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just, I prefer a man.”
Gayle said if she and Oprah were in a real romantic relationship, “We would tell you.”
Oprah refused to say something on her talk show
She used to urge Oprah to say something on her popular talk show. She recalled she used to say: “You’ve got to say something on your show because it’s hard enough for me to get a date on a Saturday night, and now people think I’m a lesbian. You’ve got to say something.”
Oprah never did say anything, and Gayle said that it’s “fine for you to say, you have somebody. I don’t.”
“So it used to really bother me. And now, even today, there’s still people that say, ‘Well, you know, the truth is…’ I don’t care. I’ve now gotten to the point in my life that very few things get to me.”
Here’s what Oprah once said about the rumors that they were in a relationship.
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