By PopEater Staff
In the inaugural interview on ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’, which aired Monday night, talk show queen and OWN Network head Oprah Winfrey revealed she contemplated suicide at age 14 when she discovered she was pregnant.
Winfrey was discussing how she made bad choices in her youth as a result of not having boundaries along with the sexual abuse that took place when she was aged 9 till 13. Winfrey reveals that she was a promiscuous teenager and upon finding out that she was pregnant at age 14, she said “I thought, ‘Before the baby was born, I’m going to have to kill myself.'”
When Morgan asked, “Did you really (contemplate suicide)?” Winfrey replied, “Oh, for sure.”
She also said that she felt no connection whatsoever to the baby that she had lost.
Winfrey recalled how her mother sent her to live with her father in Nashville and he didn’t know she was pregnant, “My father … said to me as I’m standing in the kitchen listening to him, ‘These are the rules of the house, you’re going to obey the rules, you have a 10 o’clock curfew, and I would rather see a daughter of mine floating down the Cumberland River … than to bring shame on this family and the indecency of an illegitimate child.'”
She continues, “But this is my 14-year-old self. I don’t even know what I thought the plan was going to be. … You’re having a baby out of wedlock, your life is over. So when the baby died – the baby was never brought home from the hospital – when the baby died, I knew that it was my second chance.”
Winfrey described how she went back to school without anybody knowing the ordeal she had been through. But once she was back in school, she went on to become the head of the student council, became the speaking champion in forensics and was chosen to be one of the two teenagers in the state of Tennessee to go to the White House Conference on Youth.
In an outtake of the interview, Winfrey revealed that when her film ‘Beloved’ premiered in 1998, the same weekend as the horror film ‘Bride of Chucky,’ she knew by early Saturday that the box office had been dominated by the gore-filled flick.
Winfrey recalls, “I didn’t even know what ‘Chucky’ was. So, I asked my chef at the time to make some macaroni and cheese… and I ate about 30 pounds worth. I’m not kidding!”
