It isn’t always lonely at the top! Take as an example America’s leading talk show host and media mogul, Oprah Winfrey. Her friendship with Gayle King has lasted for more than four decades, and her romance with Stedman Graham is three-decades strong.

Gayle and Stedman are her closest people, but there’s someone who has called the nature of their relationship into question: Oprah’s ex-stepmother, Barbara Winfrey.

Barbara’s scandalous allegations

Barbara is clearly not a fan of Oprah’s. According to her, the host kicked her out of the house she shared with Oprah’s dad, Vernon.

Over fourteen years of marriage to Vernon, Barbara witnessed Oprah’s interactions both with Gayle and with Stedman, and she implied in an interview with Mail Online that the trio’s relationship is not what they have us believe.

Barbara thought Oprah and Stedman appeared comfortable with each other, but not in a romantic way. At the same time, Oprah and Gayle appeared virtually inseparable.

She also recalled the time when Oprah took her, Vernon, Stedman, and Gayle on a cruise, but it didn’t feel like a family trip at all: