Oprah opens the painful youth trauma that still chases her on the latest episode of her titllless podcast.
The 71-year-old Mogul-Die recently celebrated her birthday to tears as she discussed her tense relationship with her deceased mother Vernita Lee, who died in 2018.
Oprah was accompanied by the American psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Perry, senior fellow of the Child Trauma Academy in Houston, Texas, and began to discuss her own personal pain after a woman named Annie had chosen the podcast in the podcast to discuss her difficult relationship with her family.
Oprah remembered her struggle to think of something positive to say about her mother when she was invited to talk about her in a church.
“I was asked to come to church to give all these praise for my mother and I couldn't think of one thing,” she explained as she choked.
The best positive memory that the former talk show -hastheer could think of was: 'She did not demolish me. She did the best she knew. '
Oprah broke into tears while she discussed her own youth trauma about the latest episode of her titllless podcast
Oprah, full name Oprah Gail Winfrey, emphasized: “The best she knew wasn't enough to feed what I needed was not enough to make me feel a whole.”
She added: '… was not enough to make me feel a valued or seen or important for her. It wasn't. But it was best she could do, and I gave up the hope that it could have been something different than what she had. '
The media veteran received an outpouring of support from fans and friends who were moved by her vulnerability.
One person wrote in the comments: 'For decades. Billions earned. And this still brought her into tears. Parents must understand and appreciate that what they do and say they stay with children forever. '
The statement has collected more than 4,000 likes by the agreing of followers.
Actress Holly Robinson Peete was one of the ones who had a genuine response to the excerpt.
She wrote: 'Wow … That's why we love Oprah. Because she shares things so well and so deliberately and articulates that so many can never express well. '
At the end of 2018, Oprah was candid about the emotional last moments she spent with her mother Vernita in her house in Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day.
At that time she shared with People Magazine that she initially had trouble finding the right words while she said goodbye.
The 71-year-old Mogul was reduced to tears while she discussed her tense relationship with her deceased mother Vernita Lee, who died in 2018; Depicted with her mother in 2015
Oprah remembered her struggle to think of something positive to say about her mother when she was invited to talk about her in a church; Shown in 1994
“In Hospice Care they have a small book about the small conversations,” she said. “I thought:” Isn't this strange? I am Oprah Winfrey, and I read a Hospice care book about what to say at the end. '' '
'She's in this small room – she likes to be in this room where it is 80 degrees. She just watches TV all day, “she described.
Oprah continued to share: 'What I said was:' Thank you. Thank you, because I know it was difficult for you. It was difficult for you as a young girl who had a baby in Mississippi. No training. No training. No skills. .
After Vernita Oprah gave birth in 1954, she left the child to be raised by her own mother Hattie Mae Lee in Mississippi, while working out of home in Milwaukee.
Oprah was six when she first went to live with her mother, after her grandmother fell ill. She was later raped and abused by Family Friends, who were not publicly identified, while she lived with her mother in Milwaukee.
At the end of 2018, Oprah was candid about the emotional last moments she spent with her mother Vernita in her house in Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day
The future billionaire moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey, permanently in 1968 after she became pregnant at the age of 14. She gave birth to a son, who died when he was only a week old.
After she thanked her mother that she had done the best she could, Oprah told her that she “should go into peace,” explaining that her mother had diabetes and could have had dialysis three years earlier, but chose not for it to do.
She said to the publication: 'I said:' You have made the best decision for you, but now your body closes. This is what happens. Your kidneys are closed. Will close your organs. What you want it is, what I want it is, is as peaceful as possible. “”
And the color purple star advised: 'I would say to everyone – and if you live long enough, everyone will go through it – say the things you have to say while people are still alive, so that you are not one of those people living with regret It could have been said about what you would have, could have said. '
