Posted by Adam

Tuesday January 18, 2011

OPRAH Winfrey says thought about killing herself after falling pregnant at 14.

In an interview with Piers Morgan on his new CNN show, the billionaire chat show host said she was sent to live with her father in Nashville when she was a young teenager. He laid down the rules of his house early, and without knowing she was pregnant.

“‘I would rather see a daughter of mine floating down the Cumberland River,’ he said, ‘than to bring shame on this family and the indecency of an illegitimate child,’” Winfrey said, quoting her father.

“He’s saying that to me, and I know that I am pregnant. So I’m thinking, well, I’m just going to have to kill myself.

“When the baby died, I knew that it was my second chance.”

Oprah recently revealed she went into a “massive, depressive macaroni and cheese-eating tailspin” when her 1998 film Beloved bombed at the box office.

“I’m not in the movie business. I did this movie because I was passionate about it,” she said.

“I didn’t know that you had that weekend and that is it. So I am thinking that if people don’t go this weekend, that people will go see it next weekend.

“It premiered on a Friday and I remember hearing on Saturday morning that we got beat by something called Chucky.

“I didn’t even know what Chucky was. I asked my chef at the time, Art Smith, to make some macaroni and cheese.

“I ate about 30 pounds worth. I’m not kidding! It’s the only time in my life I was ever depressed. I recognized I was depressed because I’ve done enough shows [to know], ‘Oh, this is what those people must feel like.

“I think the way life is set up for most people who have the opportunity to succeed, is that if you get the lesson, you don’t have to repeat that again.”

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