"And the people told me: We'll listen to you on Sunday, but that's it. I thought I was going to bring this spiritual consciousness– awakening channel! And I soon learned: Ain't nobody care about that," Winfrey remembers. I thought I was going to create a network that was Super Soul Sunday all day long. "Ohhhhhh, I was so misled in my thinking. Winfrey started her own television network, OWN, in 2011. "People would ask me, 'Who will be the next Oprah?' And the answer is: 'There won't be.'"Ĥ. All the right elements came together at the right time. "I didn't want to be the person chasing a phenomenon. "I didn't want people saying, 'She shoulda quit that show three years ago!'"
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I had written something in my journals years before: 'I never want to stay too long in the ring so I end up punch-drunk,'" the 63-year-old TV titan tells Vogue. Their behaviors were shifting, and the media world was changing. I could feel that happening with the audience. People were moving into 'I want to be able to watch it when I want to watch it,' and the 4 o'clock hour was no longer must-see television. "I started thinking about the times: where we were, would I be able to take it digital. In 2006, Winfrey realized The Oprah Winfrey Show couldn't-and wouldn't-last forever.
"You get bad reviews-but in the age of Trump, it will be over in a day." I was intimidated by the work, but in the end, what's the worst that can happen?" she says.
But the acting bug bit her again, and this past spring, she starred in HBO's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. After all, 28 years had passed between The Color Purple and The Butler. Winfrey was nervous about returning to the acting world.
Do the work as an offering, and then whatever happens, happens." It taught me to never again-never again, ever-put all of your hopes, expectations, eggs in the basket of box office. "That's when the gratitude practice became really strong for me," she says, "because it's hard to remain sad if you're focused on what you have instead of what you don't have. But, after six weeks, she snapped out of it. Winfrey bought blocks of tickets to try to get Beloved's box office up. 'What's depression? Why don't you just pick yourself up?'" I felt like what many people had described over the years on my show, and I could never imagine it. "I actually started to think, 'Maybe I really am depressed.' Because it's more than 'I feel bad about this.' I felt like I was behind a veil. It was 10 o'clock in the morning, and I said to, 'I would like macaroni and cheese for breakfast.' And soooo began my long plunge into food and depression and suppressing all my feelings." What had been "the happiest time" in her life had turned into her a miserable, public failure. "I knew nothing about box-office projections or weekend openings. You got beat by Chucky.' And I said, 'Who's Chucky? What do you mean it's over? It's just Saturday morning!'" Winfrey recalls. "I got a call from someone at the studio, and they said, 'It's over. 17"-the day after Beloved opened in 1998. "I shall never forget Saturday morning, Oct. Here, E! News highlights some of Winfrey's best lessons learned: "No regret, no fear.just absolute joyful contentment." I've tried to talk to other people about this thing: I have no angst. "I don't know of a person who can honestly, deeply, profoundly speak to the word contentment. In Vogue's September issue, the living legend shares some words of wisdom while discussing her return to acting and the legacy of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which went off the air in 2011. Oprah Winfrey has an aha moment a minute-or so it would seem.
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