Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King break silence on THOSE lesbian lover rumors Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Deirdre Durkan-simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 22:56 BST, 25 July 2024 | Updated: 22:56 BST, 25 July 2024 e-mail View comments Oprah Winfrey shut down the longstanding rumor that she and her longtime best friend, Gayle King , have secretly been in a decades-long romantic relationship.
While appearing on Melinda French Gates' Moments That Make Us interview series, the 70-year-old media mogul, who has been with partner Stedman Graham for over 35 years, reflected on her close bond with King, 69. 'I think we've shared pretty much everything and I would have to say, it wasn't even a matter of navigation,' the former daytime TV legend said. 'For years, people used to say we were gay, and listen, we were up against that forever.
And people still may think it.' King quipped that she use to ask Oprah to do a show clarifying they were just friends as it was 'hard enough for' her 'to get a date on Saturday night without people thinking they were together. 'If we were gay, we'd tell you!' the mother-of-two assured viewers.
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