Seal slams Oprah Winfrey, calls her ‘part of the problem for decades’
Singer Seal has lashed out at media mogul Oprah Winfrey following her inspirational Golden Globes speech, claiming she knew about the rumours surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein but did nothing.
The talk show host’s widelyapplauded speech focussed on the plight of sexually abused women and the #MeToo movement. But the singer has accused her of being an example of ‘sanctimonious Hollywood’, reports dailymail.co.uk.
He took to Ins tag ram on Wednesday to share a shot of Winfrey with the disgraced producer at two events, with a meme that read, “When you have been part of the problem for decades... but suddenly they all think you are the solution.”
The 54-year-old singer took it one step further, and wrote with the meme that Winfrey knew about the various sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein. “You’d heard the rumours but you had no idea he was actually serially assaulting young starry-eyed actresses who in turn had no idea what they were getting into. My bad.”
He hash-tagged it with ‘# Sanctimonious Hollywood ’. Winfrey, who became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes, called for a world free of sexual abusers.
Best known as the host of her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ended in 2011, Winfrey is also the founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. She is also known for her films Selma (2014), and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017).
You (Oprah Winfrey) had heard the rumours but you had no idea he was actually serially assaulting young starryeyed actresses who in turn had no idea what they were getting into. My bad.
SEAL SINGER