oprah a crackhead??

[blugiant]

Re: oprah a crackhead??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">if she was a crackhead she'd be skinny from all the stay up for three days straiht bingeing. noh true? the only crack she inhales is cracked wheat smothered in buttery goodness with fry chicken with biscuits and shrimps on the side of a leg of lamb and a big bottle of cherry soda. </div></div>

watt bout wen shii lose awl dat weight. mekk mii wandar bout wat typa diet shi used

[blugiant]

Re: oprah a crackhead??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is this be from years and years again before she was &quot;OPRAH&quot;?

could be true, if so.


source = national enquirer and ex-boyfriend writing tell all book to make money ? </div></div>....yeah but where him get this likkle excerpt that him post today? </div></div>

taffy askinn favarate rhatorikkal qwestian again. tell imm fe goo look itt up

[blugiant]

Re: oprah a crackhead??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">who knows if it's true and even if it was what does it matter if she cleaned up her act?

after all the last president and the new one former coke-heads </div></div>

jah yout yu knoo mii ann yu went school wen crack ting wass real badd. fe fiva dollar yu cood gitt eh-em fram crackhead. certain stigma attached to crackhead ann dat y a latt aff peeps stay wey fram crack.

iff dat toree iss troo ann dem caan attach dat stigma to oprah itt aggoo mekk mzungu feel bettar bout racism bout blakk. obama sey imm tried coke ann now oprah might bee wan crackhead ann dem a so cawled blakk role model

[diabolical_Tanya]

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Oprah reveals on her show she smoked crack cocaine during her 20s
Jet, Jan 30, 1995
E-mail Print Link Calling it &quot;one of the hardest things I've ever said,&quot; talk show queen Oprah Winfrey revealed during a recent show that she had smoked crack cocaine while in her 20s.

Winfrey, 40, whose popular syndicated &quot;Oprah Winfrey Show&quot; is the nation's No. 1 talk show, was interviewing four mothers who had experienced problems with drugs along with Patrice Gaines, a Washington Post reporter, who has written a book chronicling her own experience with drug abuse.

During the taping, Winfrey turned to her guests and the studio audience and said, &quot;Let me say this, and this is probably one of the hardest things I've ever said,&quot; he voice beginning to crack. &quot;Hold on just a second,&quot; she said as she tried to regain her composure.

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Project Management Standard Program Turning to one of the guests who had admitted smoking crack, Winfrey said, &quot;I relate to your story so much because of what Patrice just said about being introduced to drugs by men in your life.&quot;

She continued, &quot;In my 20's, I'd done this drug and I know exactly what you are talking about.&quot; She said the drug use occurred while she was an anchorwoman on a television news show.

&quot;It's my life's great big secret. It was such a secret because--I realize (with) the public person I have become--if the story ever were revealed, the tabloids would exploit it and what a big issue it would be.&quot;

She went on to explain, &quot;But I was involved with a man in my 20s who introduced me to the same drug that you've been talking about and, like Patrice, I always felt that the drug itself is not the problem but that I was addicted to the man.&quot; She admitted: &quot;I can't think of anything I wouldn't have done for that man.&quot;

Reflecting on this difficult period in her life, she added, &quot;And I've often said over the years...in my attempts to come out and say it, I've said many times I did things in my 20s that I was ashamed of, I did things I felt guilty about, but that is my life's great big secret that's always been held over my head.

&quot;I had a perfect round little Afro, I went to church every Sunday and I went to Wednesday prayer meeting when I could... and I did drugs.&quot;

She said dealing with the topic on the show gave her the strength to face her own demons. &quot;But you having the courage to come out...has made me feel free enough to say it today.&quot;

Winfrey, her audience spellbound, clinging to her every word, pointed out, &quot;I understand the shame. I understand the guilt. I understand the secrecy. I understand all that.&quot;

However, she affirmed, &quot;But what I know is that the spirit of God inside of all of us--but what we tend to believe, I think a lot of people believe, is that the drug is stronger than the power of God. They believe that disease is stronger than the power of God.

&quot;There is nothing greater than the spirit within you to overcome. You and God can conquer this. You can conquer it,&quot; she affirmed as the audience broke into applause.

After sharing her &quot;great shame&quot; with her mentor, poet-author-actress Maya Angelou, Winfrey said she was bolstered by her comforting response. &quot;I shared this with Maya Angelou...and you know what she said to me? It really turned my life around and I say this to you, 'You did then what you knew how to do and when you knew better you did better.' And I'll never forget that.&quot;

While Winfrey had not released an official statement regarding the show at JET press time, in Gaines' first-person account about the show's taping there was a comment from Deborah Johns, a spokes-woman for the show.

Johns was quoted in the Post as saying, &quot;Oprah made a spontaneous admission to mothers battling drug addiction that she also had used drugs...Oprah's words on the show are the best expression of how she feels.&quot;

In the article, Gaines, the author of Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color - A Journey From Prison to Power, said Winfrey began to cry before making the admission to her guests.

Gaines said Winfrey told her later that the drug use had been at the behest of a man that she was involved with and that when the two parted, she stopped using drugs.

Winfrey, whose show is number one, did not indicate what form of cocaine she had used, but Johns said she understood the drug had been smoked. Johns also said that Winfrey would not be available for interviews on the subject.

COPYRIGHT 1995 Johnson Publishing Co.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning

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[Dr.Dudd]

Re: oprah a crackhead??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">who knows if it's true and even if it was what does it matter if she cleaned up her act?

after all the last president and the new one former coke-heads </div></div>

jah yout yu knoo mii ann yu went school wen crack ting wass real badd. fe fiva dollar yu cood gitt eh-em fram crackhead. certain stigma attached to crackhead ann dat y a latt aff peeps stay wey fram crack.

iff dat toree iss troo ann dem caan attach dat stigma to oprah itt aggoo mekk mzungu feel bettar bout racism bout blakk. obama sey imm tried coke ann now oprah might bee wan crackhead ann dem a so cawled blakk role model </div></div>If what is known about her did not change their attiotude toward her this win't. you need to do some serious reading to improve your sociology skills to really understand what is behind racism against blacks.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oprah reveals on her show she smoked crack cocaine during her 20s
Jet, Jan 30, 1995
E-mail Print Link Calling it &quot;one of the hardest things I've ever said,&quot; talk show queen Oprah Winfrey revealed during a recent show that she had smoked crack cocaine while in her 20s
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...87/ai_16404541 </div></div>
So it over and done and we can put this to bed, unless the guy is saying this was after that?

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">taffy askinn favarate rhatorikkal qwestian again. tell imm fe goo look itt up </div></div>

<span style="color: #CF0376"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Pinky</span></span> it is not rhetorical when your spin doesn’t match the story you conveniently forget the link.

[Sinco01]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is this be from years and years ago before she was &quot;OPRAH&quot;?

could be true, if so.


source = <span style="font-weight: bold">national enquirer and ex-boyfriend</span> writing tell all book to make money ? </div></div>

[tsophra]

Re: oprah a crackhead??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">RANDOLPH L. COOK v OPRAH WINFREY


Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

OPRAH WINFREY,

Defendant-Appellee.


Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
No. 97 C 322--Charles P. Kocoras, Judge.

ARGUED FEBRUARY 17, 1998--DECIDED APRIL 8, 1998


Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge. Randolph Cook had a story to tell, and he thought the segment of the press commonly known as supermarket tabloids might be interested in paying him for the rights to that story. For all this Court knows, he may have been right. The story involved a national celebrity, Oprah Winfrey, whose name is far from unfamiliar among readers of the tabloids. What is more, the story was about Winfrey's alleged use of cocaine while involved in a romantic relationship with Cook in 1985. Cook's story thus possessed in abundance the sensational character associated with the tabloid press.

In any event, Cook never cashed in on his tale. Winfrey herself revealed on her nationally syndicated television program in 1995 that she had abused drugs, although she denied ever having been romantically involved with Cook. Cook argues that Winfrey's response to his attempts to sell his story to the tabloids did not stop at confessing to drug abuse on her own program, but also included uttering defamatory comments about him and in the process committing tortious interference with his prospective economic advantage and with his contractual relations with one tabloid, the National Enquirer. The same statements by Winfrey, Cook maintains, also amounted to intentional infliction of emotional distress. He initially filed suit in January 1997, then amended his complaint to include four counts of defamation as well as the other torts listed above.

Pursuant to a motion by Winfrey, the district court dismissed the complaint in its entirety under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Cook filed a motion to vacate the order of dismissal, which the district court treated as a motion to reconsider under Rule 60(b). The court denied that motion on August 22, 1997. Cook filed a timely notice of appeal, and for the reasons stated below this Court affirms in part and reverses in part, remanding some of Cook's claims for further proceedings.

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