By Associated Press
6 hours ago




CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey said she was "stunned" to learn her father plans to write a book about her.

"I was upset. I won't say devastated, but I was stunned," Winfrey told New York's Daily News in a story published Tuesday.

Winfrey said she laughed when one of her assistants told her the newspaper was calling to ask about a book her father Vernon Winfrey was writing.

"I said, `That's impossible. I can assure them it's not true,'" she said. "... I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, `I meant to tell you I've been working on it.'"

Winfrey was living with her mother in Milwaukee when she was sent as a young teen to live with her father in Nashville. She previously has credited him for imposing discipline on her and stressing the importance of an education.

The Daily News reported that the conversation with Winfrey took place Sunday, when she was in New York to receive the Elie Wiesel Foundation Humanitarian Award.

Reached Tuesday, Michelle McIntyre, a spokeswoman for Winfrey's Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc., said: "We're not going to issue any further comment."

Vernon Winfrey, who owns Winfrey Barber & Beauty Shop in Nashville, had left work Tuesday evening and was not available for comment.

Winfrey told the newspaper she last saw her father when he accompanied her on a trip to Africa a few months ago, but that they often talk and she has a good relationship with him.

"I would have preferred to have known my father was working on this. It would have been a nice gesture, a courtesy," she said.

Vernon Winfrey plans to call his book "Things Unspoken," according to the newspaper.

cold, COLD SHIT!!! To not even be able to trust your own daddy

CalhounSq said:

i wonder why he's doing this. he always seemed like such a cool man,
not wanting to benefit from her wealth or position, still working in
his own store every day.

IstenSzek said:

Yea, it seems strange after so many years

funkpill said:

PANDURITO said:

I wonder if Oprah's going to write a sequel called "Fathers Unsued"?

hmmmm

oh boy

I guess "Things Unspoken" won't make Oprah's Book of the Month, huh?

wait, oprah's made millions off of her families story...he's the parent...don't need to tell her squat. maybe he felt she would try to talk him out of it. and maybe she should hold judgment (and so should we) until we read the book.

sosgemini said:

I was thinking the same...

Maybe this is all calculated to raise publicity for his book. I mean, we are talking about it now, aren't we? Maybe she's just trying to get him on the best-seller list.

sosgemini said:

Oprah has made millions off of being who she is, which of course includes her upbringing. That's a little different than writing a book about your famous daughter to cash in.

Fame shouldn't obliterate common human decency. Nor should parenthood.

is the book going to be some ugly hate filled blurb ?

it could be a book written with love and respect and honor

HereToRockYourWorld said:

how do we know whats in the book? we are reviewing the beast before its even finished.

like Mach said it could be *his* story written with love and respect...for all we know Harpo could be a minor character in his lifestory.

well we will see won't we, I hope it's not hurtful. I wonder who's been whispering in his ear though, does he have any other kids?? Oprah doesn't need the legacy but maybe someone else is wanting ole dad to have something to leave behind other than a barbershop

I hope she doesn't get hurt by this, this will cut her deeply.

The more HYPE.....the more SALES.

Mach said:

It could be. That would be nice.

i just love the ugly pictures they find for these sensational stories.

good for him...

Oprah.

I hate Oprah.

Ace said:

You have to train your ears in order to enjoy Oprah

Wow. She couldn't have kicked him a couple million to get him out of the barber shop?

Mach said:

Exactly. We've no indication of a scathing tell-all. I think Oprah's shock comes from not having known.

In the end she may be really flattered by what he says.

IstenSzek said:

i don't think it will be so bad. I don't think Oprah is necessarily against the book, I think she's just hurt that he didn't tell her and she got the news second hand. What could he say in it that she hasn't already?

alwayslate said:

That Oprah isn't black?

sosgemini said:

that her real name is waffles!

waffles Winfrey

sosgemini said: