Oprah’s not saying anything except to categorize it as a family secret that will be a real bombshell.She told viewers a family secret "shook her to her core" when she first learned of it months ago. She also teased brief footage of a reunion, with someone seen (only from behind) stepping from the shadows onto the stage for an embrace.But who is it? Someone Oprah never expected to see again? Someone Oprah never knew existed? A child? A sibling? A doppelganger twin sister?!?
Oprah called the news a "miracle.Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she has a long-lost half-sister naturally got me thinking about other TV characters who have long-lost siblings. There are a lot of them. The ones who immediately came to mind were the Fonz, Hank Hill, and above all Homer Simpson, whose brother led a charmed life “until he found out he was a Simpson” (and until he was dumb enough to let Homer design a car).Oprah was nine-years-old when her mother, Vernita Lee, became pregnant with Patricia, who was then given up for adoption. Oprah was living with her father in Tennessee and did not know about her extended family until last October.Oprah said ''Patricia is my half-sister who I never knew existed.''
At the time
Patricia was born, Winfrey was nine and was living with her father in Nashville.Patricia, who is now a grandmother, spoke of the difficulties of growing up without anyone ''who is a part of you.'' But researching with the help of her son, Andre, in 2007 they eventually pieced together that Oprah Winfrey was a relative and kept the revelation a secret because Patricia did want bad media attention and ''did not want her [Oprah] hurt,''
Patricia said.That secret? A half-sister named Patricia who was given by for adoption by Oprah's mother in 1963. In the following clips, Winfrey tells her audience about Patricia and then sits down with her relative, about whom Oprah says:"What is so extraordinary is they have known this secret since 2007... She never once thought to go to the press. She never once thought to sell this story.
"During the show, Winfrey revealed that she learned she had a sister last October, saying the discovery "left me speechless."She was 9-years-old and living with her father in Tennessee when her mother, Vernita Lee, became pregnant with a daughter, Patricia, who was given up for adoption. Born in 1963 in Milwaukee, Patricia would later live in a series of foster homes until the age of 7. She was then adopted, but said her childhood was "difficult.
"Tracing her roots took years of perseverance but Patricia finally discovered her mother – and her half-sister."I received this big old package of information in the mail," Patricia said during Monday's interview. "And it has all of my birth information in it. I was like, 'Oh my god. I have a family.' "
Oprah called the news a "miracle.Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she has a long-lost half-sister naturally got me thinking about other TV characters who have long-lost siblings. There are a lot of them. The ones who immediately came to mind were the Fonz, Hank Hill, and above all Homer Simpson, whose brother led a charmed life “until he found out he was a Simpson” (and until he was dumb enough to let Homer design a car).Oprah was nine-years-old when her mother, Vernita Lee, became pregnant with Patricia, who was then given up for adoption. Oprah was living with her father in Tennessee and did not know about her extended family until last October.Oprah said ''Patricia is my half-sister who I never knew existed.''
At the time
Patricia was born, Winfrey was nine and was living with her father in Nashville.Patricia, who is now a grandmother, spoke of the difficulties of growing up without anyone ''who is a part of you.'' But researching with the help of her son, Andre, in 2007 they eventually pieced together that Oprah Winfrey was a relative and kept the revelation a secret because Patricia did want bad media attention and ''did not want her [Oprah] hurt,''Patricia said.That secret? A half-sister named Patricia who was given by for adoption by Oprah's mother in 1963. In the following clips, Winfrey tells her audience about Patricia and then sits down with her relative, about whom Oprah says:"What is so extraordinary is they have known this secret since 2007... She never once thought to go to the press. She never once thought to sell this story.
"During the show, Winfrey revealed that she learned she had a sister last October, saying the discovery "left me speechless."She was 9-years-old and living with her father in Tennessee when her mother, Vernita Lee, became pregnant with a daughter, Patricia, who was given up for adoption. Born in 1963 in Milwaukee, Patricia would later live in a series of foster homes until the age of 7. She was then adopted, but said her childhood was "difficult.
"Tracing her roots took years of perseverance but Patricia finally discovered her mother – and her half-sister."I received this big old package of information in the mail," Patricia said during Monday's interview. "And it has all of my birth information in it. I was like, 'Oh my god. I have a family.' "
Oprah Winfrey's Secret: A Half-Sister
No comments:
Post a Comment