An author, #EdwardKlein, claims Oprah doesn't like first lady Michelle Obama because she's a show off! In his new book, Blood Feud, Klein wrote:
“It appeared to Oprah that Michelle was jealous of her, furious that Barack was seeking her advice instead of Michelle's,” a source close to Winfrey told Klein.
According to Klein, Oprah, who was once a close friend and adviser of the president's, had a falling out with the first family during the president's first term in office because she thought Michelle Obama doesn't like her after the president takes Oprah's advice over his wife's.
“For her part, Oprah didn't like being with Michelle, because the first lady was constantly one-upping the president and anybody else around her. Even when the Obamas think they are being charming, they hold you at arm’s length."
Klein claims the night Obama accepted the Democratic nomination in 2008, Oprah gushed to reporters,
“I've never experienced anything like that. I cried my eyelashes off. I often wondered what it would be like to sit and listen to Lincoln speak or Roosevelt speak or what it would have been like to have been old enough to understand what Martin Luther King was saying 45 years ago today.”
Klein said that Oprah had been promised unique access to the White House by Obama if he won. She would get regular briefings on administration initiatives and advance notice on programs, which would give her invaluable material for her fledgling cable venture, OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Instead, the Obama's snubbed Winfrey after Barack settled into his new role as the leader of the free world.
“It slowly dawned on Oprah that the Obamas had absolutely no intention of keeping their word and bringing her into their confidence," ' Klein’s source said.
Oprah retaliated by prohibiting stories about the Obama's from appearing in her magazine, O, and vowed not to campaign for Barack in 2012.
"Oprah was hurt and angry and will never make up with the Obamas,” the source told Klein. “She knows how to hold a grudge."
Oprah blamed Michelle and the president's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, for double-crossing her. Jarrett, who's described in the book as Michelle's closest friend, blew off Oprah's many requests to chat about how the White House planned to work with OWN.
“And just as obviously, President Obama didn't interfere on Oprah's behalf, " Klein's source said.
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