And the Color Purple star advised, 'I would say to anybody — and if you live long enough, everybody goes through it — say the things that you need to say while the people are still alive, so that you are not one of those people living with regret about what you would’ve, should’ve, could’ve said.
In late 2018 Oprah was candid about the emotional final moments she spent with her mother Vernita at her home in Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day.
In late 2018 Oprah was candid about the emotional final moments she spent with her mother Vernita at her home in Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day.
After thanking her mother for doing the best she could, Oprah told her that she 'should go in peace,' explaining that her mother had diabetes and could have had dialysis three years prior, but chose not to do it.
The 71-year-old mogul was reduced to tears while discussing her strained relationship with her late mother Vernita Lee, who died in 2018; pictured with her mom in 2015.
