Oprah Winfrey broke down in tears while recalling the horrific experience of being repeatedly raped by her own adult cousin when she was just nine years old. 'The first moment I walked in, instantly I knew that she did not like me because of the color of my skin,' Oprah recalledīy Charlie Lankston and Carly Stern For.Her mom was living in a boarding house at the time, and the 'light-skinned' woman who ran the property refused to let Oprah sleep in the house.Oprah also shared her childhood feelings of abandonment and betrayal when she went to live with her mother, after spending years with her grandmother.She says she was repeatedly assaulted by her cousin between the ages of nine and 12, but 'kept it a secret' from her family.The TV mogul first revealed that she had been raped as a child during her talk show in 1986, and has now shared more details about the abuse.Oprah Winfrey, 67, discussed her own childhood trauma in several episodes of her new Apple TV+ series, The Me You Can't See.
I didn't know what was happening to me': Oprah breaks down in tears as she recalls being repeatedly raped by her 19-year-old cousin at age nine during mental health series with Prince Harry