Gayle King Confirms She and Oprah Are Cool After Stomach Bug Drama | TMZ Live
Nothing comes between BFFs Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey ... even a bodily-fluids TMI secret spilled on national television.
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00:00 To the fallout from Oprah's stomach flu, so to speak.
00:04 And more specifically, the way Gayle announced it
00:09 to the world, where she was on CBS mornings
00:12 and she said that Oprah had stuff coming out of both ends.
00:15 But it was a both ends thing that was--
00:17 Yeah, everyone was like, oh, Gayle,
00:19 I don't think Oprah's going to be very happy about that.
00:21 So she even suggested maybe Oprah's not going to be happy.
00:24 Something interesting happened after this
00:27 aired live at the East Coast.
00:29 Yes, because on the West Coast airing,
00:31 they completely edited out Gayle making that reference.
00:35 Both ends.
00:36 Yeah, both ends.
00:39 I have a theory about this.
00:41 Really?
00:41 Call me cynical.
00:43 So the question, especially after they made that edit,
00:45 everyone thought, oh, Oprah must have been on the phone.
00:47 And they're like, what the hell?
00:48 Gayle, what are you doing?
00:49 You can't say that.
00:51 I think Gayle and Oprah wanted to set the record straight.
00:54 They had a video phone call, which
00:56 Gayle shared with the world.
00:58 And did Oprah seem angry in this?
01:00 Or did Oprah seem--
01:01 Well, at least-- well, you decide.
01:03 I never said you were hospitalized.
01:05 I did say that you had a stomach something.
01:08 It was coming out of both sides, which it was.
01:11 I was in the emergency room for--
01:13 I was so--
01:15 Dehydrated.
01:17 You were dehydrated.
01:17 Yeah, I had a dry mouth.
01:19 And I couldn't keep enough water down to get hydrated.
01:23 So I went to the emergency room for that.
01:26 And that's just it.
01:28 You can tell she's still a little--
01:30 you're still a little weakish, it seems.
01:32 I'm not 100.
01:33 Yeah.
01:34 I'm on my way to 100.
01:36 Were you offended because I said what I said about how you're--
01:39 what happened and how you're recovering?
01:41 I really didn't think it was a big deal
01:43 or that it would be something that would be upsetting to you.
01:46 Otherwise, I never would have said it.
01:48 Yeah, I know you would have done that.
01:50 No, I thought what you were trying to do
01:51 is explain why I wasn't there.
01:56 And doing that in a definitive way.
01:58 OK, so I'm going to-- here's my cynical theory.
02:01 Here's my cynical theory.
02:02 I love Gayle King.
02:04 And I think she's really super smart.
02:07 And she is intentional.
02:09 And she knew.
02:10 And this is a win for Gayle and CBS and the CBS Mornings.
02:14 No, Harvey, I don't think that's what she was doing at all.
02:18 I think what happened really is that Gayle and Oprah
02:20 are clearly best friends.
02:22 And when you have a best friend, you do talk to them very,
02:24 like, you know, deeply.
02:26 And you give them the details of stuff.
02:28 I think she just took it overboard
02:29 and took her personal conversation to her job.
02:32 And now we get the both ends comment.
02:34 And that's just all it is.
02:35 I think she just had a very personal conversation.
02:37 You don't just say both ends.
02:39 You know you're going to say it when you say it.
02:41 So you think they cut it out because Gayle asked
02:43 them to cut it out?
02:44 I think they cut it out because it put more attention on it.
02:48 And then it set up this conversation
02:51 that she had with Oprah.
02:52 And notice Gayle turned to the camera and said, yeah,
02:56 remember I said that.
02:57 She actually played to the camera when she was doing it.
03:00 Yeah, because America was going for her.
03:02 Because literally everyone's saying she's a bad friend.
03:04 So she had to address the haters.
03:06 Exactly.
03:07 Oprah's not mad at her.
03:09 No, she's not.
03:10 And that's what Gayle wanted to show.
03:11 She's like, everyone, please leave me alone.
03:12 Me and Oprah, we're good.
03:14 We're good.
03:14 This is a win for Gayle.
03:16 This is a win for Gayle.
03:17 It's definitely not a loss.
03:18 It's a win.
03:19 Hi, I'm Jules from Chicago.
03:21 I think it's kind of hilarious that Gayle overshared
03:24 about Oprah.
03:25 But that's just what best friends do sometimes.
03:28 If I was Oprah, I would be totally annoyed with her.
03:30 She actually sounded a little annoyed in that call.
03:33 But they've been best friends for decades.
03:35 They're going to be totally fine.
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