Oprah Winfrey spoke with all kinds of guests, big and small, on her old talk show, but they always had the same question after each interview.
“One of the great lessons, if there was a common denominator in the human experience of the [‘The Oprah Winfrey Show], which was my greatest teacher all those years,” the 63-year-old said on a panel at the Tribeca TV Festival, “to me it is that everybody that I ever interviewed, after every interview, at some point somebody would say, ‘How was that? Was that okay? How’d I do?’ ”
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Winfrey says this question was asked no matter who she was talking to. “And that is whether it was Barack Obama,” she explained, “or Beyonce, or the guy who murdered his kids, or the guy who molested kids, or somebody who’d been on and lost their family, at the end of every interview somebody would say, ‘Was that OK?’ ”
There was one person who Winfrey was surprised asked that question, though.
“And after Beyonce,” Winfrey said, “I go, ‘Girl, you’re Beyonce!”
