BG: Oprah Winfrey Says ‘I’m Gonna Leave This Earth As A Never Married Woman, And I’m Okay With That’

During a recent interview with Shaun Robinson of Access Hollywood, Oprah made it clear that she and her man-Stedman are going to be on that “life partner” status forever…and that’s her final answer.

Will you leave this earth as a never married woman?

Yes.

That’s your final answer?

*laughs* You’re good. You didn’t just come with no red carpet questions. That’s my final answer. I think it’s really interesting that you would ask it because I thought about it again at Tina Turner’s wedding because Tina [said], ‘Oprah, you need to do this.’ Well it took [her] until 75 to do it. Now you’re telling me I need to do it. I was just thinking, would things really be different? I don’t think so. I think my final answer is I’m gonna leave this earth as a never married woman, and that’s really okay with me. Stedman would tell you Shaun, if you ever interviewed him, he would tell you [that] had we married, we would not be together.

Really? Why is that?

Because he’s a traditional man and this is a very untraditional relationship. I think it’s acceptable as a relationship, but if I had the title ‘wife,’ hmmmm. I think there would be some other expectations of what a wife is and what a wife does. First of all you gotta come home sometimes.*laughs hysterically* I think it’s time for this interview to end.