Oprah Winfrey’s “You get a car!” moment on The Oprah Winfrey Show over a decade ago has become a pop culture phenomenon and the mogul is opening up about that day in a new interview.
Winfrey gave a brand new Pontiac G6 to everyone in her studio audience that day in Sept. 2004 – a total of 276 cars.
She’s now telling ET she repeated the now-famous phrase eleven times because she was clarifying it to the confused audience, who originally thought only one audience member was winning a car.
"I was saying that because people were screaming so loudly they didn't know what was going on," she explained.
"Prior to that moment, I had said, 'Open up your boxes. One person has a key.' So when I looked at the faces of the audience, they go, 'But I have a key ... but she has a key,' so that's why I said, 'You get a car! You get a car!' to try to clarify, because they all looked so confused. Everybody gets a car!"
Winfrey had producers scout people who really needed cars to fill the studio audience for that taping.