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Oprah breaks down in tears over the private pain that still haunts her despite her billion dollar success


Oprah is opening up about the deep-seated pain of childhood trauma on the latest episode of her self-titled podcast.

The 71-year-old mogul — who recently celebrated her birthday — was reduced to tears while discussing her strained relationship with her late mother Vernita Lee, who died in 2018. After Vernita gave birth to Oprah in 1954, she left the infant to be raised by her own mother Hattie Mae Lee in Mississippi, while she worked away from home in Milwaukee as a housemaid. In late 2018 Oprah was candid about the emotional final moments she spent with her mother Vernita at her home in Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day

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