Oprah Winfrey Reveals Most Shameful Moment From Her Talk Show

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00:00A man who had cheated on his wife and and he humiliated his wife on television in front of all of us and said to his wife

00:08She's pregnant Oprah Winfrey sharing a moment of regret from her iconic talk shows at 25 year run

00:16Nobody should ever be in a position to ever be humiliated in my name

00:21I'm Oprah Winfrey and welcome to the very first national Oprah Winfrey show

00:26People believe that what I you know stand for what the show stands for is for goodness and light

00:31The media mogul's been saying it from day one

00:34But as she explains on the Jamie Kern Lima show Oprah's still haunted by the time

00:40She didn't live up to that promise

00:43The producers were so proud of themselves that they had the wife and the girlfriend on at the same time and they had agreed to come

00:50On national television live and said to his wife. She's pregnant

00:54Well, what you don't know is she's pregnant and the audience gasped. I gasped. I was so hurt and to this day it is

01:02One of the most shameful things I was ever a part of fans might remember the series featuring plenty of shocking stories before signing

01:10Off in 2011. Why would you lie? Why do you have to lie about the time you spent in jail?

01:16Why did you do that?

01:17I have never been prouder of the work that

01:20we have done never have I ever been prouder to work with a group of people because I think that what we do is

01:25Some of the best the television has to offer on a daily basis. Nobody should ever be in a position to ever be

01:32Humiliated in my name Oprah now calling the infamous episode a watershed moment in her shows history

01:38I was so hurt and to this day

01:40It is one of the most shameful things I was ever a part of and I said to my producers afterwards

01:45This will never happen

01:48to me or this show again, we're not doing this and

01:52They're like, okay, so we won't do that. So what are we gonna do?

01:57So we're gonna sit down and we're gonna figure out literally how we can use this show as a force for good

02:03The Oprah show doing all that and more across 25 seasons

02:08Setting up the TV host for her current title as the queen of all media. Oh, yeah

02:13Well, you can have conflict and you can have drama and you can have struggle you can have all those things

02:18but the heart of what we're doing has to come from a space that you want to shine the light and

02:26Not bring darkness into anybody's space

02:29Maya Angelou used to say this to me that one of my greatest gifts was that I was obedient to the call

02:35You know, so the call to understand that oh gee I was more than meant to be more than just a reporter

02:41I was meant to be more than just on TV

02:43It was meant to be more than just have a talk show, but to use that as a force for good in the world

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