Oprah’s aunt denies revealing her dad’s identity

Oprah Winfrey’s aunt has denied that she ever told biographer Kitty Kelley who the talk show host’s real father is.Katherine Carr Esters, 82, who is actually Winfrey’s cousin, but referred to as an aunt because of the age difference, spoke out about the damaging interview she gave Kelley.

“I’m sorry this book portraying her falsely was ever written and that I participated by answering questions,” the New York Post quoted Esters as telling a Jackson, Miss. newspaper. Esters also said that she wants to talk to Winfrey, 56, to explain why she spoke with Kelley. “Kitty Kelley misquoted me when she said I told her who your father was,” Esters said. “‘How could I know?’ That’s all I’d want to tell her,” she said. Esters, who lives a stone’s throw from where Winfrey grew up in rural Mississippi, said that, around the time Kelley came to see her in 2007, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who was attempting to trace the Winfrey roots, had visited her. The aunt said she mistakenly believed the two were working together. ANI