Vernon Winfrey gonna spill the beans on Oprah

Oprah's daddy gonna tell the truth on her...

Oprah 'upset' by dad's book plan
May 23, 2007 • Book reportedly to be called "Things Unspoken"

Oprah Winfrey said she was "stunned" to learn her father plans to write a book about her. "I was upset. I won't say devastated, but I was stunned," Winfrey told New York's Daily News in a story published Tuesday. Winfrey said she laughed when one of her assistants told her the newspaper was calling to ask about a book her father Vernon Winfrey was writing.

"I said, 'That's impossible. I can assure them it's not true,"' she said. "... I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, 'I meant to tell you I've been working on it."' Winfrey was living with her mother in Milwaukee when she was sent as a young teen to live with her father in Nashville. She previously has credited him for imposing discipline on her and stressing the importance of an education.

The Daily News reported that the conversation with Winfrey took place Sunday, when she was in New York to receive the Elie Wiesel Foundation Humanitarian Award. Reached Tuesday, Michelle McIntyre, a spokeswoman for Winfrey's Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc., said: "We're not going to issue any further comment."

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