{"id":2383,"date":"2010-04-12T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/04\/oprah-embellishes-future-episodes-of-show-may-contain-disclaimer-some-viewers-considering-class-action-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:05:30","slug":"oprah-embellishes-future-episodes-of-show-may-contain-disclaimer-some-viewers-considering-class-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/12\/oprah-embellishes-future-episodes-of-show-may-contain-disclaimer-some-viewers-considering-class-action-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Embellishes Life Story &#8211; Future Episodes of Show May Feature Disclaimer &#8211; Some Viewers Consider Class-Action Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/entertainment\/tv\/oprah_lied_about_poverty_sex_abuse_KV46xkhYBn7wzMEZiXT5DI\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Oprah lied about poverty, sex abuse, tell-all book claims<\/h1>\n<p>By JEREMY OLSHAN<br \/>\n<em>Last Updated:<\/em>\u00a04:40 PM, April 12, 2010<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/rw\/nypost\/2010\/04\/12\/news\/photos_stories\/Oprah%20Winfrey163226--300x450.jpg\" alt=\"Marion Curtis\/Startraksphoto.comOprah Winfrey\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" align=\"right\" \/>Oprah Winfrey embellished her poor upbringing and made up stories about sexual abuse to boost her\u00a0ratings, her relatives say in Kitty Kelley\u2019s new biography.<\/p>\n<p>Although Winfrey claims she never had any new dresses or dolls, and had to adopt two cockroaches as pets growing up in rural Mississippi, her cousin contends she was actually relatively \u201cspoiled\u201d as a little girl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea,\u201d Katherine Carr Esters said.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve confronted her and asked, \u2018why do you tell such lies?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Oprah told me \u2018that\u2019s what people want to hear. The truth is boring.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/entertainment\/tv\/oprah_lied_about_poverty_sex_abuse_KV46xkhYBn7wzMEZiXT5DI\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue @ NYPost.com<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Post Oprah lied about poverty, sex abuse, tell-all book claims By JEREMY OLSHAN Last Updated:\u00a04:40 PM, April 12, 2010 Oprah Winfrey embellished her poor upbringing and made up stories about sexual abuse to boost her\u00a0ratings, her relatives say in Kitty Kelley\u2019s new biography. Although Winfrey claims she never had any new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}