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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