Glamsquad Magazine March 2023

FEATURE

courthouse. “I believed from

the beginning this was an

attempt to muzzle that voice.

I come from a people who

have struggled and died in

order to have a voice in this

country, and I refuse to be

muzzled.”

Her fight against silencers

infuses her philanthropy,

including the Oprah Winfrey

Leadership Academy for

Girls (OWLAG), in Meyerton,

Johannesburg.

“Each student has had to

overcome childhood poverty

and trauma during their lives,

yet also possesses a resilience,

courage and spirit seldom that

make them stand out among

their peers,” reads the OWLAG

website.

“This school is my greatest

legacy,” says Oprah.

Everybody gets

a car!

For a 2004 episode of

The Oprah Winfrey Show the

audience was selected based

on nominations from friends

and family who said that

person desperately needed

a car. She gave 11 people a

Pontiac and said one more

person would win a car if there

was a key in the box each

member of the audience had

been given.

But, upon opening their

boxes every member of

the audience discovered

they would receive a new

car. Giveaways of products

advertised on TV is nothing

new, but Oprah made it the

main event.

Biggest

interviews in

history

From the Oprah Winfrey

Show’s debut in 1986 until 2011,

Oprah has conducted more

than 37,000 interviews. Some

interviews are more memorable

than others.

The 1993 film Michael

Jackson Talks … to Oprah was

viewed by 90 million people,

where Oprah speaks to the then

untarnished King of Pop, in his

first interview in more than a

decade. It’s difficult to watch the

interview through a 2023 lens

when Jackson speaks about

surrounding himself with children

as an adult to compensate for a

lost childhood.

Children surrounding Jackson

would later file lawsuits against

him claiming sexual abuse.

Funnier scenes include Jackson

audaciously beatboxing and

singing, while Oprah asks him

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