OMG Oprah did crack!

Can you believe the hollier than thou madame Oprah Winfrey actually did crack.

I mean there I was gobsmacked to read that the diva talkshow host, admitted to have smoked crack cocaine while in her 20s.

The 54-years-old richest woman in the world, called her crack habit "one of the hardest things I've ever said."  

On her "Oprah Winfrey Show",  she 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, "Let me say this, and this is probably one of the hardest things I've ever said."

"Hold on just a second," she said as she tried to regain her composure.

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

She continued, "In my 20's, I'd done this drug and I know exactly what you are talking about." She said the drug use occurred while she was an anchorwoman on a television news show. "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." She went on to explain, "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." She admitted: "I can't think of anything I wouldn't have done for that man."

Reflecting on this difficult period in her life, she added, "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.

"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. But you having the courage to come out...has made me feel free enough to say it today. I understand the shame. I understand the guilt. I understand the secrecy. I understand all that." she said to her gullible audience.

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

 "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."

Generally I would use the phrase "Tell that to Oprah" but not this time, the woman who tends to judge people for who they are, the choices they make and how they lead their lives, also admitted to having faults in her life. She aught to be ashamed of herself. So this time I say, "Tell that to Felicia".