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Gail King

lines on the record: 54
first: 2020-03-11
most recent: 2020-03-11
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yeah, but that is true. Fair enough, that is true. No, that's also true. Yes. But I just like being with people. Yes, I do. And experiencing new things. And you know why?”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You never know if you're going to meet somebody, Oprah. See, you have Steedman. You go out to different places. And I have a very good life. I don't have a cry for me Argentina life because I'm not sitting at home like, oh, woe is me, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da da. It's not that. But I think ultimately life is meant to be shared, and it would be nice to meet somebody. Well, you go play share all the time.”
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“No, but I mean, I think that we're honest with each other and trust each other. And actually are very like-minded in our way of thinking. Yes, exactly.”
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“I know what it is. The secret to me is that trust, I trust you totally, even if I disagree with you, I still trust you. And I know that, you know, I have this joke with Oprah when friends say I caught my best friend with my husband. I said to Oprah, if you ever walked in and caught me with Steadman, you should not be mad. You should take me to the mental institution. Because I have had a breakdown. Don't be mad. It means I need help.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love singing. If I could do anything in life, I would love to be on stage singing, but my voice is terrible. I get it. But I mean, different words speak to you at different times. You know, I've been to five of these, and every time I come, there's something different. Every single time. And the words hit you depending on what's going on in your life. You hear them very differently. That's true.”
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“I mean, I think it's just been a culmination of things. I was sitting here when Tamila was singing. Take me to the king. My heart is broken pieces. There's my offering. Please don't sing.”
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“Gracious, gracious. My word, it used to be kindness, but now my word is gracious. Can we all just be gracious to each other? You like that word?”
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“I don't know anybody who's been with you or had an association with Oprah, whether it's this close, this close, this close whose life hasn't been changed for the better. And that is the truth. That is the truth. That is the truth.”
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“I got a scab, but yeah, for the most part, yeah. I mean, it takes a lot to make me angry. I really like people. I like hearing their stories. I like interacting with people. So it takes a lot to get to me. She likes hearing the story so much.”
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“You do have to let it go. You do. You have to let it go. I have moved on. Is there a scap? Yeah, but I have moved on. I put on my game face and my big girl pants because I never lost sight of who I was, what I believe I am, and my intention. I've never lost sight of that. But it certainly was a learning curve and it was very painful. But yeah, I think sometimes you have to go through that that makes you question things in life.”
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“No, I absolutely did, Oprah, but it's a very dangerous thing to read all the negativity, which I did, which will take you in a very dark place. I had to stop doing that. And Taylor Swift, I saw her Miss Americana video documentary. I know, I thought it was very good, but there's a line in there where she said, I had to turn the channel, change the channel on my brain. Don't you like that line? I wish I had seen it when I was going through this stuff.”
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“If you want to, but I just think humanity should prevail always. And I think we still have to figure out a way to navigate that with each other, that we can disagree and you can be mad at me, even you can be mad at me. But you can't speak to me. Way that I was spoken to”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Guys, I live in New York on the upper west side. I'd been away. I came home and all my kitchen counter was a box of cupcakes. I love cupcakes. There was a box of cupcakes with a note from, and it said, Katie and Surrey were thinking about you. Now, I didn't even know Katie Holmes A even knew where I live, which means she had to find out. that they came and they had dropped it off and I don't really know I defined somebody to get her email just so I could say thank you so much for doing that it's the kindness of strangers that I will never forget during”
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“Yeah, Sean Spicer reached out to me, who I don't know at all just to say, are you okay? And then on the other side, for others, there was just silence of people that I thought would.”
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“Is the people that came to reach out to me in unexpected places, Avanka Trump? It's not like I'm hanging out at the White House, but Avanka Trump reached out to me to say, are you okay? I'm sorry that this is happening to you. I mean, I have to say I was very touched by that. Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote a piece that said black words matter, very touched by that. Very touched. Tanahasi Coates wrote something.”
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“No, it rocked me over. It didn't just take me by surprise. It rocked me. But when you say pull up, what does that mean when you say pull up? Yeah, that's very true. Because I thought pull-up means, you know, it made you see da-da-da. But I don't know. It just made me see that help comes from unexpected places. I always try to operate from the do no harm. That is always my intention when you talk about do no harm. That was certainly my intention, doing that story and doing that interview. And the intention certainly didn't align with the impact of the fallout that happened from that. But what got to me was the vitriol and the bulgarity that was just unleashed at me in ways that I couldn't even understand where that was coming from. So I say you may disagree with a story, you may disagree with the way I do the story, but there's just no way, there's just, it's just not fair or okay to be as vulgar and as hateful as what I experience. And what surprised me”
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“I said, in the middle of all of my contract negotiations, all these big interviews are happening. She goes, that's called... That's what that's called.”
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“But you know, he said to me later, he thanked me later, actually, because he said, Yeah, he did. I thought he'd be angry, but he said, I want to thank you for letting people see my passion and my pain. That was the first time that he had talked after that documentary. And I didn't really know R. Kelly. I didn't know him. But I thought that was a career-changing moment for me. No questions.”
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“He absolutely was not faking, but I'd seen previous interviews, and I had my questions on my lap, and I thought if I went up to him or tried to stop him or started hollering, he would leave. And I'd seen previous interviews where he would leave the room when he was angry. So I was just thinking, if I sit here quietly, look at him, look at the chair, look at him, look at the chair, and say his name, that he would know I'm not going anywhere. And it was my way of trying to calm him down. But in the middle of hitting his hand and hitting his hand and spit was flying and at one point, you know, Spit fell on my lip like this. And I don't even want to make a movement. So I just sat there like that. I sat there. You've all been in situations like that where someone's talking to you and you don't even want to wipe your face like that?”
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“Well, it did go from zero to 110 quickly. I honestly thought he was having a, I don't want to say a breakdown. People said he was faking. He was not faking.”
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“But I wouldn't have done it though. If you hadn't said, and I said, I just don't want the headline to say, because the reviews were terrible and everybody was bashing you and taking you down. And I said, I don't want a headline that says even her best friend is abandoning a sinking ship. And CBS and I were talking. They hadn't offered it to me yet, but it looked like they might. And I said, if they offer it to me, I'm not going to take it because I don't want it to be another black market against you. And Oprah said, own is going to be what owns going to be. You love the news and if they offered to you, you better take it, which I think speaks to her as well. That she was saying, you know, don't deny yourself an opportunity. But I wasn't going to take it.”
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“No, and my message to them, and I wanted us all to hear it at the same time, was listen, I am not blaming your son for this because Kirby is old enough. She has to take responsibility for her actions. So I'm not blaming your son. But what I do know is that my daughter would have never done that. She would never have behaved that way. So I'm asking you to support me. I don't want them to continue to see each other. Because I think this is going in a very bad path. May I just say... May I just say that he has now done some jail time, that's all I'm saying. So clearly, clearly, I saw something. That's all I'm going to say about it. Might have been extreme, but I don't regret that at all. I don't regret that at all. And I said to Oprah, you don't have children you don't understand.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“About to call the police because I kept calling, no answer, calling no answer. She comes in and I'm sitting there on the steps, which by the way, never a good sign when your parents are sitting on the front steps when you open the door. She had fallen asleep in the park with a guy, with a boy she was dating. They had fallen asleep. And so, yes, I did have some things to say about it.”
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“I didn't go through terrible teens. I didn't go through terrible twos because I don't think that that's an inevitable thing that has to happen. I think I had very clear boundaries. It was not a democracy. I was definitely in charge. I wanted to hear your opinion. But at the end of the day, I would make a mommy decision, but I wanted to hear their opinion.”
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“Thank you for pointing it out. No, I'm not trying to manage things, but I do like to know what's going on. Yes, I do. I do. Is that a bad thing? I want to know what's going on. Yes, I do. Yes. So I'm working on that.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's eight? You run his bathwater? I went, oh yeah, we'll go run your bathwater. You know, as a mother, you're used to cutting up their food or you're used to doing stuff for them.”
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“No, no, no. This was funny. I was on the phone talking over once and Will was eight at the time. And Will came and said, mom, could you please run my bath water? And I said, Obraham, hold on a second. I have to go run Bill's bathwater. Will's bathwater. And Will goes, doesn't the boy know the difference between hot and cold”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, because Oprah said this, Gail, the reason why you have a nanny is so that you can sleep. I go, I don't want the nanny to put my children to bed. I don't want that. I want the nanny to be able to help me. But I did think I wanted the kids, my face would be the first and the last that they see. And she said, well, doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a nanny? I go, no, it's very helpful during the daytime. But I was very appreciative, but I didn't want the nanny to be like a second mother. I didn't want that. I wanted to be very clear, you are you and I am me. And that we had very specific lines. Yeah. That mattered to me.”
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“Yes, too, yeah. I call my mother. I say mom, my friend Oprah just bought two sweaters at casual corner. I had one on layaway. I was like, wow, she bought two.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, because there was a snowstorm and I said, yeah, but I don't have any clothes. And Obra said, you can borrow my clothes. We were size 10 then. And I said, I don't have a toothbrush. We can buy a toothbrush. And she said, I have underwear and it's clean. And so I said, there was a headline in a tabloid that said, the night I wore Oprah's underwear. That's how it started where people think there's that. But I mean, it just says something to you Just says something about you that A, you would even invite me to spend the night at your house because it's not like we really knew each other. We didn't really invite each other. But tell them.”
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“Oh, and you know the thing about it is you think you look cute too. Then you go back and look at it and go, yikes! But it says something, though, Oprah about you, because we're 21 and 22. I don't know if Oprah told you, I was a production assistant, which is an entry-level position. She's a news anchor, which is the highest you can be in low. But with the snowstorm, and you said, let's spend the night together, let's spend the night not together, but you could spend the night in my house.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And guys, listen, I was just a local TV news anchor. It's not like I was a big person. It wasn't that. But you want somebody, whatever you're doing celebrates your success, whatever that is. And so I found myself turning down things with you, turning down, going to different places because I knew that that would be upsetting to him. And you want somebody who sort of cheers you on in whatever that is.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can say 150% absolutely not because this was a very smart guy, Yale educated lawyer, former cop, really smart, very good looking, all the good things. But for whatever reason, being married to me was difficult for him. And I can remember very clearly a conversation when he said, I'll be glad when this Gale king shit is over. And I thought, God, I want somebody that kind of likes the Sail King shit. So when you think of that, when you think of that, no, I mean, I can remember whatever that is.”
2020-03-11 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Gayle King: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why? Because I think you have to love your children more than you're mad at him. And it also, you would say, nobody wants to hear. You know what he did to me? Really, nobody cares about that. Nobody really cares except your closest friends and even they get tired of hearing it. But you have to love your children more than as much as you dislike him and are really very angry at him. You have to figure out a way to navigate that. And I'm happy to say, knock onward, that we can actually be friends and have a civil conversation. We can actually do that. There are now 32 and 33, so they're potty trained and employed, so that's good. But when they were growing up, you had to figure out a way that you could be civil and cordial, and we were able to do that. Okay, I'm very proud of that, actually.”
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“And which is right because if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, It would have been explained away. Oh, and they were both nude, by the way. So I even had to see that. But if they had been sitting there fully clothed, they could have said, well, we were talking about whatever, whatever, whatever, because she was a friend of mine and we were discussing something, something, something. So I did have, it did have to be that graphic. That's absolutely true. So I pay attention to all whispers”
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“It was a bold move when you think about it, because she knew Oprah was there. She knew Oprah was there. Yeah. And so that's just sort of a high.”
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“What would you like to call this? I know that's what it was. I know that's what it was. So, you know, when they say the wife always knows, the wife always suspects, I tell you, I really, you know this, I had no clue, no clue whatsoever”
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“No, it's funny, Oprah says, I don't know what this is about, but Gail wants you to leave the room. Number one, who does that? But I thought I said, listen, you can tell him later, but I didn't want him to hear it in pieces.”
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“This was in the days before. Remember when you didn't have cell phones? You would drive yourself to the airport and the airline used to call you and say your flight is canceled, but we can get you on a flight if you leave right now. Remember those days? So, you know, I threw the kids in the car. We rushed to the airport. I came home and a day, actually a day early was not expecting. He wasn't expecting to see me and I wasn't expecting to see her. Yeah. Yeah.”
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“Somebody likes it, they've asked me to do a necklace line. I can't do it because I'm on the news, but somebody likes it. I just think it's called accessorizing. Oprah's not a fan.”
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“Again, I think, I try not to wear necklaces and it doesn't look like a Mr. T starter kit, but I think it's called accessorizing.”
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“That's what she told me. She said, I think it's good to change your hairdo as opposed to wearing the same hairdo every day like you do.”
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“Bressa says, you got him. There was another time you had done Elizabeth Taylor in your hair. You was sticking up and everything. Oh, it looks so good. It looks so good. It looks like you put your hand in a socket. I don't know why people are telling you that because I just don't think it looks so great. But do what you want to do. Which is what she does.”
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“You're gonna say I said, I have a black eye because your boobs are hanging out. It hit me on the TV. Your boobs are hanging out. I have a black eye. What are you wearing?”
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“Maybe it was so stupid you forgot. I mean, looking at it now, I know it is funny, guys, when you hear it, I'm embarrassed to tell you that that was a story, because after watching the Oprah show all these years, they say you should just tell the kids the truth, but tell them in levels that they can understand. But the time, I don't know, we just thought that was a good story to tell. It was stupid. I know it was stupid. You know why? This is what I learned from.”
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“What had happened was... What happened was we had moved into one house and another and I did say that daddy has to go into the other house because there's a burglar and daddy's going to help catch the burglar so he's not going to be here for a while. And then Will said to me later, three weeks later, has daddy caught the burglar yet? I go, no, he's still trying. He's still trying because I couldn't bring myself to tell them that we were getting a divorce. Now, I have to say, I'm surprised that you said that you would never heard that story because Oprah at the time you said, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.”
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“And yes, I did. And she kept saying to me, You shouldn't, it's a mistake, it's a mistake. Finally, she said, please get back with him. And I will send a moving truck. And I said to her, well, you don't understand because you don't have children. He was on his knees and he was crying. And you said, that doesn't mean anything. You just don't understand. So she said, please get back with him.”
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“But you know, I never thought of it like that. I just know that, and we have talked about everything and nothing. That's the thing people say, what do you guys talk about? We can honestly get off the phone and go, You've never had therapy, but I've been to five therapists when I was married. And may I just say this, nobody has been a better therapist than Oprah in terms of the advice as someone who's never been married, who's never been a parent. Nobody's been a better therapist. So I think it's good that we can do that for each other because you have certainly done that.”
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“I wasn't even thinking about because I knew you were looking forward to that dinner and you know if somebody calls and you have to have a reaction There's nothing anybody can do about it, so I thought I would just wait. Yeah.”
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“And she said, me, I go, when you go to speak, this is what happens when you go to speak. I said, what do you talk about? What are you saying? And so here we are all these years later. You still talking, talking.”
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