Gayle King Addresses Cindy Crawford Calling Out Oprah Winfrey Over Past Comments
etcanada.comGayle King is weighing in on the recent high-profile comments made by Cindy Crawford criticizing an early interview with Oprah Winfrey.
In the first episode of the new AppleTV+ docuseries “The Super Models”, Crawford reflected on her very first appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1986, when she was 20, and she calls out Winfrey for making her feel like a “chattel,” or like a piece of property.
King, a close friend of Winfrey’s, spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith on Thursday at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s 2023 Albie Awards in New York City, and she explained that she’d “heard about it” but that she hasn’t yet watched the clip of the interview in question, or the new show. “I haven’t seen it, and I want to see it, but I’m surprised and a little disappointed,” King shared. “Because I know Cindy’s been on her show many, many, many times and it has always been a pleasant experience, [so] I would hate to think that something that happened years ago [could have bothered her].” While King reiterated that she wasn’t clear on exactly what happened in the interview, the veteran journalist said, “It’s not Oprah’s thing to humiliate or make anybody feel badly.” “I have to see it, but, as far as I know, everything is good between Oprah and Cindy,” King added.
In the clip — which was at first taken down from YouTube amid the controversy, but subsequently reposted — Crawford, then just 20 years old, appeared alongside John Casablancas, the model’s rep at Elite Modeling Agency.
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