Is this the moment that the Pope became Starstruck by Oprah? Fans convinced new Supreme Pontiff enlightened when he saw her in the audience

Oprah Winfrey was overjoyed to have a short personal band with Pope Leo XIV when she saw him riding in his popemobile.

On Wednesday, the 71-year-old television icon during the day shared a video of the newly chosen Pope who drove through an admiring crowd after he had delivered his inaugural mass.

While Pope Leo’s vehicle crawled past where she and her bff Gayle King stood Oprah – who has fell more than 40 pounds Shouted in the past one and a half years, ”Chicago! ‘

The city was both her old house and where she took the Oprah Winfrey show for decades, and it is also the birthplace of the newest Pope, who was born in 1955 Robert Francis.

Oprah’s clip soon became viral, with fans left that Pope Leo XIV was completely starstruck when he saw the TV icon in the crowd of people.

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“He knew it was you! So cool! Wow! He knows you are a great person, “wrote a fan.

Another added: ‘He pointed to you [Oprah]. That is so cool. The Pope knows Oprah ‘

Many of Oprah’s fans wondered about the ‘special moment’ and how they thought the Pope’s reaction ‘Sweet’.

They loved the way he seemed to ‘point’ on Oprah after ‘recognizing her voice’.

“The point! He must be a little surprised to see her in the crowd, “wrote an Instagram user, who earned nearly 600 ‘likes’ on the comment.

Whether Pope Leo Oprah heard shout that he shouted his old stamping grounds, or that he just noticed her and Gayle in the crowd, she successfully succeeded in attracting his attention.

Just as the pope drove past their vantage point, he seemed to look back with what looked like an expression of recognition.

Pope Leo’s Grin’s grin became even wider and he went from waving to the admiring crowd of members to point his finger at Oprah’s direction.

“He pointed to you!” Oprah could be heard that she said to her companions just before the clip ended, which suggests that he Fr. Manuel Dorantes.

“Last Sunday @oprah and @Gayleking lived the inaugural mass for @pontifex – and they won the moment he drove through them in Popemobile!” Read the caption of the video on Instagram. “It will be a time when they will never forget, especially for Chicago’s own lady O.”

In a post for Oprah dailyThe Mogul of the entertainment industry revealed that they and Gayle were also accompanied by their friend Maria Shriver in the Vatican to see Leo’s first mass as a pope.

She revealed it Fr. Manuel who had invited the women for the celebration.

“It gave me hope to hear him speak, so simple and from the heart, of unity in such a divided world,” Oprah wrote about the homily of the Pope Leo.

“The Pope’s message was not dressed in dogma or political calculation. It was an invitation, “she went on. “An invitation to imagine what could happen if we did not concentrate our lives in fear or control, but around love, services and radical compassion.”

Oprah’s playful appearance at the first mass for Pope Leo comes after another hilarious video in which she and Gayle parties before they went to one of Los Angeles’s data from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour at the end of last month.

“Filer, dizzy, dizzy on!” Oprah screamed in a video of the women, before gayle texts from Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ’em, intervened with’ Don’t Be AB ****, now come to the floor. ‘

However, the concert created some recoil among fans for Gayle, as some complained that she was’shows her wealth‘While she and Oprah partyed for the concert.

The controversy followed after her ticket on the completely female journey of Blue Origin in the room cost no less than $ 150,000.