Of all the memorable moments to occur on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, arguably the most iconic was when host Oprah Winfrey gave away a free automobile to each member of the studio audience, with her much-mocked refrain, “You get a car!
And you get a car!” Winfrey’s best friend Gayle King sat down for the inaugural edition of People‘s “Pop Cultured”, and revealed that she actually had a little something to do with the legendary 2004 giveaway. “I was at an airport, minding my own business.
A guy walks up to me — and I’ll call him Larry — [and said,] ‘We’re really interested in giving a car to the show,'” King recalled. READ MORE: Oprah Meets Gayle King’s Grandson With A Big ‘Lion King’ Welcome “I said, ‘Oh, okay.
That’s nice.’ He said, ‘No, no, we’re interested in giving a car to everyone in the audience,'” she continued. “At that point, I put down my suitcase and went, ‘What did you say?’ He said, ‘We’ve been trying, and we can’t get anyone to return our calls.’ Well, why would they return a call because it just sounded so far-fetched?” King recalled. “But there was something about him… that I believed him,” she added.
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