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Oprah Winfrey says in her magazine that she cried for three days when a relative told the National Enquirer that Winfrey became pregnant at 14 and lost the baby after birth.
Reports said her half-sister, Patricia Lloyd, sold the story to the tabloids.
Winfrey writes in O, The Oprah Magazine that her relative "sat in a room, told them the story of my hidden shame and left their offices $19,000 richer. I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed." She says she learned something from what she calls "that first betrayal".
Having the secret out was liberating, she says, and it allowed her to begin to heal from the sexual abuse experienced as a girl.
