In July, Oprah Winfrey flew to Switzerland to see her good friend Tina Tuner walk down the aisle and say “I do” to her boyfriend of 27 years, Erwin Bach. After the lavish ceremony, the media mogul recently revealed that Tina tried to convince her to jump the broom next.
During an interview with Shaun Robinson of “Access Hollywood”, Oprah said she politely told her friend no thanks. When Robinson asked if she will leave this Earth as a never married woman, O quickly replied, “Yes!”
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“That’s my final answer,” she said. “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.”
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“I think my final answer is I’m going to leave this earth as a never married woman, and that’s really okay with me,” she continued. “Stedman would tell you Shaun, if you ever interviewed him, he would tell you [that] had we married, we would not be together.”
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The 59-year-old businesswoman when on to say that she and her longtime partner have a very “untraditional relationship.”
‘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,” she explained, laughing.
Take a look at seven other celebs who have similar views as Oprah, below.
1. Condoleezza Rice
“I always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice Southern girl,” Rice said during a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, “but the fact is that you don’t get married in the abstract. You find someone you’d like to be married to.”
“The fact is I’ve just never found anybody I was going to spend my life with,” she added, “But, I think it’s a wonderful thing.”
3. Jamie Foxx
“I always felt for my friends that got married. I would see them married for five years and then see them start to (crumble), and all of the sudden they’re not married and they’re enemies. Like they hate each other. And then I’m stuck in the middle as their friend and there’s kids involved and it wrecks everything,” the actor explained on “Oprah’s Next Chapter” last year. “I just don’t want that… I know one couple that is married and they’re happy, but everybody else, they are gnawing their arms off.”
4. Cameron Diaz
Last year, the actress told Esquire magazine that marriage “just wasn’t the thing I was drawn to.”
“I certainly didn’t want it in my 20s. Or my 30s,” the then 40-year-old star added.
5. Eva Mendes
“I have to be honest. And no disrespect, because I think marriage is a beautiful institution,” she said in a recent interview. “I am extremely romantic but I think there is that little rebel inside me that is anti-establishment. It’s just one more fun thing I can rebel against.”
She went on to say that she loves to attend other people’s weddings but doesn’t “ever want to be the actual person getting married.”
6. George Clooney
Clooney, who was once married to Talia Balsam and recently breakup with Stacy Keibler, told Piers Morgan that he tried marriage thing before and he doesn’t want to do it again.
During an interview with Esquire, the actor said, “I don’t talk about it because I don’t think about it. I don’t ever question other peoples’ versions of how they live their lives or what they do.”
7. Charlize Theron
This actress said she never dreamed of getting married, even as a child. ”When I was a little girl I never dreamed of the white dress and all of that,” she said in a 2008 interview.
“I really want for myself a long-term relationship, and I have been in long-term relationships,” she explained. “That’s the kind of union that I want. The actual ceremony is not something that is important to me, but I see the importance for other people.”
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