Oprah Winfrey is so happy with her bestie.
The billionaire, 71, cried when her BFF Gayle King took off into house on the Blue Origin mission Monday morning alongside 5 others, together with Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.
Winfrey was on scene on the launch web site in West Texas and instructed a reporter through the livestream that she wore yellow as a result of King, 70, is “sunshine.”
Noting that the pair have been pals for almost 50 years, Winfrey stated she’s “never been more proud” of the “CBS Mornings” anchor.
“This is bigger than going to space for her,” Winfrey acknowledged. “Anytime we’re on a flight, she’s [King] in anybody’s lap if there’s the slightest bit of turbulence, has real, real anxiety flying. And this is overcoming a wall of fear, a barrier.”
“I think it’s gonna be cathartic in so many ways for her,” Winfrey added.
The “Selma” producer defined that she needed King to go on the house journey as a result of “life is about continuing to grow into the best of yourself and the fullest expression of yourself.”
“I think this is one of the most fullest expressions you can possibly have,” Winfrey went on. “I felt deeply that she would regret it, and I didn’t want to hear about it for the next 15 years. ‘I wish I had gone.’ I said there’s only one time that all of the women are going up for the first time. There will be other trips, but there’s only one first time. So to be a pioneer is great.”
Winfrey stated that in their remaining dialog earlier than the house flight, she instructed King, “Peace be still. Hold to God’s unchanging hand. He’s got your back.”
Winfrey defined that she felt “so calm” earlier than takeoff because the reporter requested for Winfrey’s tackle King being brazenly “afraid” for the house flight.
“For every woman who is on this flight, it’s about fulfilling something within themselves,” Winfrey famous. “For Gayle, it’s about overcoming this great fear and also stepping into the moment of excitement. It goes beyond this moment of just going into space. I think this will be an everlasting experience.”
Earlier than the New Shepard rocket’s raise off, King regarded nervous as she arrived in West Texas for the flight.
“Gayle King is literally petrified about going to space?? like are they forcing her to do this…” one particular person wrote on X (previously Twitter).
“Boyyy, Gayle King looks scared af to go to space,” another person stated.
A 3rd particular person tweeted, “Gayle is terror-stricken. Shouldn’t have agreed to this Miss Sis.”
King, Perry, 40, and Sánchez, 55, have been joined by former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn for Monday’s flight.
The group, who wore matching blue house fits, loved a couple of minutes in house earlier than returning to Earth as a part of the all-female 11-minute house tourism flight.
Each King and Perry kissed the bottom after they returned to Earth.
“Oh my God, that was amazing,” King stated with a big sigh of reduction.
King additionally instructed a reporter after the flight, “It’s oddly quiet when you get up there. It’s quiet and peaceful. You look down at the planet and you think, ‘That’s where we came from?’ To me it’s such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better.”
