Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King Respond To Longtime Lesbian Rumors

Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King are reflecting on their decades-long friendship, even responding to the longstanding rumor that they’re really in a romantic relationship.

The longtime greatest mates made an look on Melinda French Gates’ Moments That Make Us interview sequence on July 24. Throughout their time on the present, Winfrey and King opened up about simply how highly effective their friendship is.

The friendship between Winfrey, 70, and King, 69 started about 50 years in the past once they each labored on the Baltimore-area information station WJZ-TV. Throughout a significant snowstorm, Oprah instructed Gayle she may keep at her place for an evening, and the 2 of them instantly bonded.

“I feel we’ve shared just about all the things and I must say, it wasn’t even a matter of navigation,” Winfrey stated of their bond, in keeping with PEOPLE. “You realize, for years, individuals used to say we have been homosexual, and pay attention, we have been up towards that perpetually. And other people nonetheless might imagine it,” Winfrey famous.

That’s when Gayle chimed in to insist that the world would know by now if their relationship was one thing extra.

“I used to say Oprah, ‘You gotta do a present on this, as a result of it’s onerous sufficient for me to get a date on Saturday evening with individuals pondering we’re homosexual,’” King joked. “As a result of if we have been homosexual, we’d let you know!”

Winfrey went on to inform Gates that she thinks the lesbian rumors run rampant as a result of individuals “aren’t used to seeing ladies with this sort of fact bond.”

“I simply assumed all people had a extremely good good friend,” King stated of their shut relationship. “I simply assumed each lady – perhaps not for males – however I simply assumed each lady had at the very least one.”

“The explanation why I feel our friendship has labored is as a result of Gayle is happier, not completely happy, however happier for me for any type of success or victory or problem I get via than I’m for myself,” Oprah gushed. “And I really feel as completely happy as she does — I can’t be happier than, can’t surpass Gayle. You can not out-happy her. I’m equally as completely happy for her.”

The speak present host went on to say that friendships “with anyone who has a touch of jealousy about something that you just’re doing — actually about your success or your being celebrated” most likely received’t work.