Video: Oprah Winfrey Reveals She Contemplated Suicide at Age 14

By PopEater Staff Posted Jan 18th 2011 02:50AM

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 discussed how she made bad choices in her youth as a result of not having boundaries, along with the sexual abuse that took place from when she was age 9 until 13. Winfrey revealed 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. Watch a video of the interview after the jump.

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 continued, "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 recalled, "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!"

Tags: oprah winfrey, Piers Morgan

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Tuesday 18 January

By terryhighlander

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AND I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS HYBRED MONKEY IS ANYTHING BECAUSE SHE IS NOTHING!!!!!!!!

By Marsha

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Says the schmuck who can't even spell hybrid...it's no wonder you don't understand.

By abc

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30 pounds of maraconi and cheese? I'll bet her bowels were bound up for weeks.

By MJ

Good thing Ricky Gervais wasn't there, he would have said..

DO IT...!! Yo Ugly !

DO NOT GO AWAY MAD... JUST PLEASE GO THE HELL AWAY..!!
EVERYONE IS SICK OF YOU..!!

By hohumyawn

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WHO CARES!!! I'm sick of hearing about her.

Thursday 20 January

By McB

I wish she did so we wouldn't have to have put up with years of a fake personality. Cmon people can't you see she is the most fake celebrity out there?

By dave

she did contemplate jenny craig though,fat pig!!!!!!!!!!

By Caroline

Why, why is everyone so angry? What are your lives like? God help us all. Seriously.

By Denise

I agree.......so much anger and jealousy. Too bad get over it!

By LB

God Bless you OPRAH... no matter what negative people are saying.. I send you many blessings..Thank you for all you have done for american and african women! We all love you!

By lessy

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I love her! but I am tired of hearing the same old stories, I think the interview told us nothing new a/b her, other than the new adventure of her "OWN" network. I love all that she has done for others and all that she stands for, but enough already, maybe once her "OWN" network gets off the ground we will see and hear less from her......

By kevin daniels

another one who feels it necessary to tell us all about something that happened when "I was 14". Last week it was Micheal Stipe.When i get to be her age, i'm gonna tell everyone about that time i stopped for ice cream on my way home from my paper route, when I WAS 14! Oprah need a hug? Big friggin deal.

Wednesday 19 January

By LadyJ

Turn that nerd rage off.

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