Oprah to Babs: Not a lesbian

Oprah Winfrey, one of the recipients of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors, laughs during a reception in the East Room of the White House. (Dec. 5, 2010) Credit: AP
Well, here's the deal: You get an hour interview with Barbara Walters and a few things are inescapable -- tears, and confessions, though not necessarily in that order. Here's a generous outtake from tomorrow night's Oprah Winfrey encounter . . . ("Oprah: The Next Chapter," at 9 on ABC.)
Here's the pullquote:
"I'm not a lesbian . . . I'm not even kind of a lesbian," Winfrey said. "And the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody Must think I'm lying. That's No.1. No. 2: Why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life."