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Don’t you dare drag Mama O into your nonsense!
This is exactly what movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is trying to do in the midst of his ongoing sexual assault scandal.
According to TMZ, sources have told the gossip site that Weinstein has been telling members of his inner circle that Oprah Winfrey reached out to him earlier this week to urge him to defend himself against the allegations.
The multiple Oscar winner also reportedly claimed she offered to publicly support him as more women come forward .
Winfrey’s spokesperson, however, says that’s a bold-faced lie.
“Oprah has not spoken to Harvey Weinstein directly. Someone from his team reached out to her to see if she would talk to him, and she said she would if it was for an interview [for CBS’ 60 Minutes],” the spokesperson said.
“She was only interested if he’d look in the mirror and give her the honest, bone marrow truth. Oprah issued her own statement on the Weinstein scandal earlier this week in which she described the producer’s behavior as ‘hideous.’”
Speaking of that past statement, Oprah stressed on Thursday, “I’ve been processing the accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s behavior and haven’t been able to find the words to articulate the magnitude of the situation.”
She then quoted filmmaker James Schamus, who once said, “This is the story of one predator and his many victims; but it is also a story about an overwhelming systemic enabling, and until that story is fully told we will fall far short of stopping future depredations on a similar scale.”
