Oprah opens up about drugs, abuse

"Those men that did that to you years ago when you were a child, could you do a show with them here? Bring them in and confront them?" he said referring to Oprah's talked-about childhood abuse.

"I don't think it would serve the greater good for me. First of all, one of them is dead. That wouldn't serve the greater good because that would make it all about me. What would serve the greater good is to be able to empower somebody else to do it in their own life," she candidly replied.

Part of Oprah's inspiration comes from children. And though she has none of her own, she has given thought to adoption.

"I go to Africa at least twice a year and every time I go, I have kids over there that I sponsor, so I'm sort of their adoptive mother and I've been wrestling with whether I should bring them back," she said. "I have seriously thought about it."

‘Before crack was crack’
Always candid, in the past Oprah has divulged painfully private secrets for the first time on-air and she told Billy about the hardest one. "Years ago I had a woman on my show who was talking about drugs and how she was addicted to her boyfriend and I had used drugs in my 20s with this boyfriend and I was more addicted to the boyfriend than I was to the drugs," she revealed. "So the admission to using drugs on television was the biggest thing."

"It was crack, right?" Billy asked.

"Yeah, well it wasn't called crack at the time. It was called freebasing. It was before crack was crack," she admitted.

But drugs weren't the only issue Oprah was forced to publicly confront.

"In 1997, you put out a public statement saying that you were heterosexual because there was this blind gossip item," Billy said. "If then were now, would you do that again?"

"I would do that and more," she replied. "That was mean. That was wrong. That took on a life of it's own because of some reporter who decided that it would be a cute thing for her to do. But the truth is, if I were gay, I would've told you years ago! I would've had a coming out party on the air."

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