In it, she is seen walking into a room, hugging her newfound sibling and saying, “Nice to see you.”
Oprah showed the video of that Thanksgiving meeting. I call my mother and literally confront my mother with the story: ‘Is this true?’ And she says, ‘Well yes, I think it’s true.’ “ “And Libby says, ‘Do you really want me to tell you - 10 minutes before coming down to do a show? … She said, ‘You have a sister,’ and I’m like, ‘What!!!?!’ So that is how I find out. … I finally said to my assistant, Libby, ‘What is going on in this family?’ “I got an e-mail from, saying, ‘There’s something in the family you need to know about, and your mother needs to tell you.’ And Mother tells me nothing. “Here’s how I was told,” Oprah told her stunned audience. Here’s how Winfrey says she found out about her half sister who, for years, had been trying to contact her birth mother and find out about other possible family members, including - as a possible Oprah connection began to dawn on Patricia - contacting Oprah’s Harpo Productions offices via e-mail, Oprah mentioned oh-so-in-passing. We’ll give you a minute to savor that one. Well, that could not have worked out more neatly if one of the pair had been some kind of queen of daytime TV.Īnd speaking thereof, Winfrey told her audience that she chose to make the announcement herself - so that the media would not exploit it. Winfrey made “home video” of her first meeting with her half sister she and partner Stedman Graham drove to Milwaukee to finally meet Patricia, she explained. Oprah said she never even knew her mother was pregnant.
Oprah told her studio audience this in her final season as queen of syndicated daytime talk TV. Winfrey was just 9 and living with her father when her mother gave birth to Patricia and gave her up for adoption. Oprah and Patricia met on Thanksgiving Day. Modestly billing it as “the miracle of all miracles,” Oprah Winfrey said on the show that she learned last fall about Patricia, her half sister who was given up for adoption by their mother shortly after she was born in 1963. Oprah referred to the experience as a “miracle.” Patricia and Oprah are now spending time getting to know each other and their new families.Lest ratings lag this week, Oprah announced on her show Monday - after her triumphant visit to Australia - that she has a half sister she never knew about. Oprah did not know her mother was pregnant because at the time she lived with her father in Nashville. Her mother was ashamed that she had given up her child but told the two women that she was trying to get off of welfare and just did not have the means to care for the baby.
The TV sensation was shocked to find out about her sister and immediately wanted to confront her mother to find out why she never knew she had a younger sister. So instead of going to the media Patricia decided to contact another member of the family – Oprah’s niece, who then contacted Oprah.
Oprah and her sister, Patricia, met shortly before Thanksgiving 2010 at a family gathering.Īfter finding out she and Oprah have the same mother, Patricia repeatedly tried contacting Oprah personally without any success. Oprah dropped a bombshell on her audience around two weeks ago when she revealed that she had a long lost sister who was put up for adoption at birth. In case you missed, not too long ago, the queen of day time television, Oprah Winfrey, revealed to her audience a family secret, she has a sister that even she never knew about.