Actress Rae Dawn Chong, who appeared with Oprah Winfrey in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, viciously criticized the former talk show host in a way that even shocked her interviewer.
TMZ obtained tape from Chong’s interview with Matty P’s Radio Happy Hour, in which Chong talks about her relationship with Winfrey. While the two made The Color Purple in 1985, their relationship soured quickly when Chong did Commando, she said.
“It was after when I did Commando and I was starring with Maria Shriver's husband in the movie. That's when she was a total biotch,” she said during the show, reports USA Today.
But that was only the beginning of Chong’s shocking interview. After that, she began to go after Winfrey for her looks and brought up images of slavery. She even used the n-word during the interview.
“She is amazing. I respect her, I think she's done great things for women of color, women of a certain size. I think she's an icon,” Chong said. But then she went after Winfrey’s personality, calling her a “great brown-noser.”
“ If you're in a room with her, she'll pick the most powerful person and she'll become best friends with them,” Chong said. “When we worked with her ... she was that fat chick that was the ... wannabe cheerleader that was the student council president that was best friends with the principal ... she was that fat chick in school that did everything and everybody loved her. That's Oprah -- love me, love me, love me.”
“If you look at the way [Winfrey] looks, she looks like 60 years ago she would have been a house keeper luckily. She would have not been a house n**ger she would have been a field n**ger,” Chong, who is half-black, said.
Towards the end of the interview, Chong added, “We have to give her props. ... I have to stop and say this woman is a miracle and I respect her and I say kudos to you and I don't give two cents about the other parts of it. She shifted the DNA in terms of our thinking of a woman of a certain size and a certain shape. I love her for that. I don't care what she's about, I don't care that I know her ins and outs, I just think that she's done a lot. I love her for that.”
Chong recently appeared in Jeff Who Lives At Home, the TV movie Pegasus vs. Chimera and an upcoming film titled Knock ‘em Dead.
Meanwhile, Winfrey’s OWN network is continuing to draw big subjects for Oprah’s Next Chapter, including Lindsay Lohan.
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