Oprah Winfrey is poised to take over the world. She’s revived her book club, she’s endorsing presidential candidates and next year she’ll launch her own television network. Many people consider her the most powerful woman in the world.
While that’s entirely up for debate, it has not always been peaches and successful cream for Oprah. Her rise to the top has come with its share of heartaches, pain and decade-long rifts.
Luckily, Mental Floss blog has decided to compile a brief history of “6 of Oprah’s Most Famous Feuds.” That is correct: they only had time for 6.
The obvious debacle between Oprah’s Book Club and author the apparently fraudulent memoir A Million Little Pieces James Frey is included, as is the other book battle she had with The Corrections author Johnathan Franzen.
The list also shows Oprah branching out from the literary world to take on some of her celebrity peers including David Letterman (“Oprah, Uma!”), Ludacris and Angelina Jolie. I actually had never heard anything about an Angelina/Oprah feud, but as it deals with Jolie’s refusal to assist in promoting Oprah’s school for gifted disadvantaged girls in South Africa because Oprah was on Team Jen I can see why her people would want to keep that as far under wraps as possible.
To read more about these and other Oprah feuds, read the full article here.
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