She’s spent a significant chunk of her life getting people to open up about themselves. Love lives, tragic events, drug habits, royal fallouts, big jobs, major disappointments – Oprah has heard them all and prised out as many details as she can.
But the queen of talk TV isn’t only a great interviewer with a one-of-a-kind couch-side manner: she’s a sharer too. It’s always been part of her charm.
Her traumatic childhood, her often fraught relationship with her parents, her complex relationship with food – she’s delved into it all and always managed to make us feel better about ourselves because she has her issues too.