From Rags To Riches: The Life And Times Of Oprah

Rocky Relationships

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The 1970’s and early 1980’s were a time of turmoil not only in Oprah’s career but in her personal life as well. Her relationship with her father began to suffer, and she did not speak much with her mother who was still in Milwaukee.

Romantically, Oprah began a relationship with musician John Tesh but it ended because of the pressure of having an interracial relationship at that time. She later entered into a relationship with a married man, which caused a lot of emotional turmoil. She claimed she felt worthless and powerless without him. According to Oprah herself, she even slipped into a depression so severe that at one point she even wrote a suicide note. But even the worst relationships couldn’t stop Oprah once she set her mind to something.