Her article that addressed the fake story was published online Wednesday, May 13, and it revealed what Winfrey was doing when talk of the rumor seemed to be at its peak.
“Imagine sitting cozily in bed, propped up on your favorite pillows, 240 pages into a riveting family saga—when you get a phone call telling you you’re trending on Twitter, and you discover it’s a bogus and vile story that you were arrested and your home was raided for sex trafficking and child pornography,” she wrote.
Winfrey then made the connection between the false rumor and something that happened in 1998 on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” when she wheeled out 67 pounds of animal fat in front of the crowd to show her weight loss.
“And yet when a false rumor — or a vile, disgusting attack — is contrived and amplified through social media, I’m still hit with the same anxiety.”
One person praised Winfrey for being a “role model for humanity” and said she wouldn’t latch on to questionable news stories about her.
