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*Oprah Winfrey really lets her hair down during her recent interview with InStyle magazine.
The billionaire media mogul keeps it all the way real by explaining how as she gets older, the less she gives a damn about what folks have to say about her and the money moves she makes.
And while she remains a constant trending topic on social media, Winfrey admits that tuning into the news is never a top priority.
“I don’t get up and turn on the TV first thing in the morning. I spend quiet time. I try to center myself, and I’m conscious of what I allow in because there’s so much all day long. I have the app that has all the news stories, so I scroll through the 5 Things You Need to Know Today and then choose which of those things I want to explore more. I try not to lean into the hysteria. I’ve heard a lot of Twitter chatter where people have said, “Where are you? You should be speaking up on these things!” But it makes no sense to speak when you cannot be heard. One hundred and forty characters—that is not how you want to make your mark in the world.”
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She also explained how finding life lessons and purpose in each meaningful moment has helped her to achieve as much as she has.
“I think back to the time in 1985 when I was away shooting ‘The Color Purple’ and my dream was to have a beautiful home and be surrounded by things that matter to me. So I’m really thrilled that I’ve been able to create that life, the one I was dreaming of in 1985. I get a lot of comfort from that.”
Oprah then touches on tolerating B.S. the older one gets. She believes once you cross the 40-year threshold, you “take no s**t” from anyone.
“You take no s**t. None. Not a bit. In your 40’s you want to say you take no s**t, but you still do. In your 60s, you take none. There’s both a quickening and a calming—there’s a sense that you don’t have as much time on earth as you once did. For me, there’s also a sense of calming about that. People coming with anything less than what is the truth or authentic? Don’t even try.”
Winfrey also addressed the rumors about her possibly running for president in 2020.
“That’s not for me. I’ve always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not. And so it’s not something that interests me. I don’t have the DNA for it.”
Oprah went on to discuss the sexual assault allegations looming over Hollywood and how timing is everything, according to E! News.
“Everything that’s happened has brought us to this point in time. We’ve been working our way through a lot of repressed pain, anger, shame, and disappointment,” she said. “And we weren’t honoring our own voices.”
Although fallen Hollywood powerhouse Harvey Weinstein has been a longtime friend of Oprah’s, she makes no excuses for his actions.
“Now we’re here, and it took Harvey Weinstein to burst that door wide open. But Harvey [Weinstein] wasn’t the first one. It was Bill Cosby before him, and Bill O’Reilly before him. It’s just fascinating to me because I always try to look at things from thousands of feet above…”
As more people come forward about sexism and sexual assault, Winfrey says, “It has seared into the consciousness a level of awareness that was not there before. That’s the most important thing to me. When Reese Witherspoon can tell her story at the same time as a farm worker in Iowa or a factory worker in Alabama, it says to a person, ‘Oh well, I’ve been putting up with that a**hole supervisor for all these years. Maybe it’s time for me to do something too.’”
Check out O’s full interview in latest issue of InStyle.
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