Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, is writing a tell-all book about his famous daughter, according to the New York Daily News.
The paper reports that Winfrey at first laughed at the idea that her father was writing about her youth; she called the idea “impossible.” Then she said she talked to him and was told it was something he’d been working on for a while.
“I was upset,” she told the Daily News. “I won’t say ‘devastated,’ but I was stunned.
“The last person in the world to be doing a book about me is Vernon Winfrey,” the talk show mogul added. “The last person.”
Vernon Winfrey’s book, “Things Unspoken,” will reportedly describe Winfrey’s youth. He’s been quoted as calling his daughter, who lived with him during her teen years, an “out-of-hand and unruly child.”
“I would have preferred to have known my father was working on this. It would have been a nice gesture, a courtesy,” Winfrey told the Daily News.
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Personals was compiled by Kim Profant from Tribune news services and staff reports.
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