*Oprah Winfrey regrets attempting to wrap up her iconic talk show while simultaneously launching a new entertainment network in the same year.
“I would not have taken on the responsibility of trying to build a network while still ending the show,” she told Al Roker in an interview on TODAY that aired Aug. 20. “That is my one regret. That is my, ‘I should’ve handled all of that differently.'”
Winfrey concluded her nationally syndicated talk show after 25 years in 2011, while also launching the Oprah Winfrey Network that same year.
“I should’ve completed one thing, taken a year to do nothing, and then decided what was the next thing for me to do,” she said. “I made a decision that it was time for the show to end. I don’t regret that. What I do regret is trying to do multiple things at the same time.
The media mogul added, “I would’ve done the thing that I tell everybody else to do. When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get still with yourself and do nothing. I would’ve given myself that time.”
Elsewhere in her TODAY interview, Oprah revealed that she once believed she wouldn’t make it to 60 years old.
“I was excited to make the number. I’m excited to make every number,” Winfrey told Roker about aging, Complex reports. “I remember many, many years ago, as a young girl, I always thought I would never make it to the 60s or 70s. I had this number in my head that I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to be out by then.’”
Winfrey, who celebrated her 70th birthday in January, continued, “I don’t know why. I think I had a vision of it when I was a kid, and I think it is because, under the circumstances that I was living [in] when I was a little girl in Milwaukee on welfare with my mother. What I now know is if I had stayed in those circumstances, I probably wouldn’t be here, healthy and strong and vibrant.”
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