Oprah Winfrey supports Meghan Markle and Prince Harryâs decision to step back from the royal family â1000%,â she said in a video captured by TMZ cameras.
The media mogul, who attended their royal wedding, is friends with the couple and currently working on a mental health TV series with Harry. She spoke about the duke and duchessâs decision on Tuesday night.
She said that the prince âdid what he needed to do for his familyâ and âthought about it for monthsâ in the candid clip, which also featured her best friend and TV host Gayle King.
King is also very friendly with the royal couple, as she attended Meghanâs baby shower last year (and also was present at the royal wedding, though she covered it as a reporter).
âI support them 1000%. I support them because I believe that when you have thought about this as long as they have, and even in the queenâs statement â everyone take note â where the queen says, this has been going on for months,â Oprah told TMZ.
âWhat Harry said in that charity statement [for the charity Sentebale] the other day ... the last line of his statement where he said that had to make the decision to back away from his family in order to move forward in peace with his new family, I donât know how they came up with those words, but who doesnât feel that?â she added.
âWho doesnât feel what that takes to make that decision, to give up everything youâve known in your whole life, to say, âI am going to choose this new life and what I believe to be the truest vision for myself?ââ she continued.
âI donât think anybody else has any right to say anything, when a person has sat and thought about what is the best decision Iâm gonna make for my family â and then he makes that decision â none of us have any right to say anything about that.â
Both Oprah and King denied that Harry made the decision without speaking to the royal family of some time.
âBut they didnât make the decision in a vacuum. There were a lot of conversations,â King said, adding that it âwasnât fairâ to say that the royal family was âblindsidedâ when theyâve known this was a possibility for several months.
Oprah chimed in, adding that âEverybodyâs known for months that this was happening.â
After Meghan and Harry announced two weeks ago that they were stepping back, early reports suggested that Oprah and the Obamas were advising the royal couple, which the media mogul that later denied.
âMeghan and Harry do not need my help figuring out whatâs best for them,â Winfrey told People. âI care about them both and support whatever decisions they make for their family.â
Now we just have to sit back and wait for the tell-all interview.