There’s a reason Oprah is one of the world’s most famous television personalities: She gets celebrities to crack faster than Anonymous can crack Shirley Phelps-Roper’s Twitter password.
Lance Armstrong isn’t the first to admit a shocking secret beneath Oprah’s sympathetic gaze.
Here are 12 other stunners that came to light in Harpo Studios.
1. Whitney Houston admits that she didn’t think crack was so wack.
After denying a drug problem in a 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer—the source of the infamous “crack is wack” declaration—Whitney Houston came clean to Oprah seven years later. She said her drug of choice was marijuana mixed with rock cocaine, a.k.a. crack.
She starts talking about her heavy drug use around the 29-minute mark.
2. Michael Jackson reveals that he’s suffering from vitiligo.
After years of public speculation that he was bleaching his skin for cosmetic reasons, Michael Jackson finally explained that he was actually suffering from vitiligo, a disease that causes depigmentation of the skin.
During the most-watched interview in television history, the King of Pop also confessed that he had, in fact, had plastic surgery—but not as much as everyone assumed.
3. Rihanna says Chris Brown is the love of her life.
When photos surfaced of how badly Chris Brown beat Rihanna after a pre-Grammy party in 2009, almost the whole world turned against him.
Over time, though, it became clear that Rihanna was still seeing her attacker. In an interview with Oprah last year, she stunned the world (sort of) by saying she was, indeed, still in love with him.
Soon afterward, she began posting pictures on Instagram and Twitter of the two of them hanging out in intimate settings.
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