Oprah Winfrey hospitalized for ‘serious stomach thing’; reps say it’s the flu

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Winfrey’s good friend Gayle King offered some unpleasant details about how her friend’s illness kept her from her morning show this week.

US television host and producer Oprah Winfrey arrives for the world premiere of “The Color Purple” at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, Dec. 6, 2023. Oprah Winfrey’s good friend Gayle King went into graphic detail to explain why a serious “stomach thing” prevented the media titan from making a scheduled appearance on “CBS Mornings” Tuesday.

“Needless to say, she ended up in the hospital, dehydration, had to get an IV, it was a very serious thing,” King said. Winfrey was set to introduce author David Wroblewski, whose novel “Familiaris” is the latest pick for her book club, Page Six reported. King said she hoped her friend was “not mad at me for sharing” the gory details. King felt she had to reveal some of the details in order to “make clear that matters to her and it really bothered her that she couldn’t be here today. She so, so loved this book.”

Winfrey made headlines in December by admitting that she had begun using weight-loss medication, as a way to finally get some control over her struggles with weight and body image, which have played out in the public over the past several decades. Her “body journey” also became a regular feature of her hit day-time talk show, which ran for 25 seasons,

 

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