Winfrey: Running for president ‘would kill me’
Oprah Winfrey has a killer reason why she’s not running for president.
The famed talk show host — who sparked cries for a campaign back in January — has once again refuted rumors of a run for office, this time saying it’s because she wouldn’t make it through.
“In that political structure — all the non-truths, the bull----, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on — I feel like I could not exist,” she told British Vogue.
“I would not be able to do it. It’s not a clean business. It would kill me.”
Talk of a possible 2020 presidential run against President Donald Trump picked up steam after Winfrey’s empowering speech at the Golden Globes.
“It’s up to the people. She would absolutely do it,” her longtime partner Stedman Graham said backstage at the event.
But in the months since, Winfrey, 64, has taken great pains to make it clear that any potential run is out of the question.
“I’ve always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not,” she told InStyle in March. “And so it’s not something that interests me.”
That same month, she offered up some sage advice for anyone who did decide to run.
“I will say to whoever is going to run for office, do not give your energy to the other side,” she told CNN. — New York Daily News