Oprah Winfrey's relatives say she lied about growing up poor. And who's her real dad?

Did Oprah Winfrey make up stories about a poor childhood to make herself sound more rags-to riches?

Some of her relatives speaking in Kitty Kelley's new biography "Oprah" say she did.

Winfrey has said she had no new dresses or dolls, and had two pet cockroaches growing up in rural Mississippi. In truth, her cousin says she was quite "spoiled" when she was young.

"Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea," her cousin Katherine Carr Esters said according to NY Daily News. "I've confronted her and asked, 'why do you tell such lies?' Oprah told me 'that's what people want to hear. The truth is boring.'"

As for Stedman Graham and Oprah's relationship? No sex, according to Kelley, who also claims that O has had secret lesbian affairs.


But here's the real whopper.  Oprah is still unaware of who her real father is.  Esters told Kelley his name on the condition she not publish the information until Winfrey's mother comes clean.

Vernon Winfrey, the man who raised Oprah, is also disappointed in her.

"She may be admired by the world, but I know the truth," he says. "So does god and so does Oprah. Two of us remain ashamed."

And he's not too fond of Gayle King either

Calling her a "dirt hog" and a "street heifer," adding, that Oprah has " become too close to that woman Gayle," he says

What do you think about this tell-all book? Are there cracks in Oprah's armor? Or is everyone just jealous?

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