Stunner: Huge Obama Supporter a Serial Fabricator

Next thing you know we'll find out Stedman is just a beard.

Oprah Winfrey embellished her poor upbringing and made up stories about sexual abuse to boost her ratings, her relatives say in Kitty Kelley’s new biography.

Although Winfrey claims she never had any new dresses or dolls, and had to adopt two cockroaches as pets growing up in rural Mississippi, her cousin contends she was actually relatively “spoiled” as a little girl.

“Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea,” Katherine Carr Esters said. “I’ve confronted her and asked, ‘why do you tell such lies?’ Oprah told me ‘that’s what people want to hear. The truth is boring.’”

In “Oprah,” which goes on sale tomorrow, Kelley also describes how rumors once swirled at ABC about a relationship between Winfrey and Diane Sawyer.

Employees there described “giggly late-night phone calls,” and a series of lavish gifts from Winfrey, including gigantic sprays of orchids and a one-carat diamond toe ring.

Diane Sawyer?

Shudder...

Despite such rumors, Kelley concludes that Winfrey is “asexual.”

However, she quotes sources describing how in 1989 Winfrey paid an ex-boyfriend $50,000 to keep quiet about her gay brother and “some lesbian affairs.”

As for her relationship with longtime partner Stedman Graham, according to the book the two do not share a bedroom.

Perhaps the biggest secret of the book is left a secret. Oprah still does not know the true identity of her father. Esters told Kelley who he is, on the condition she not publish the information until Winfrey’s mother comes clean to her daughter.

Vernon Winfrey, the man who raised Oprah, is also frustrated with the way she has played fast and loose with the truth.

“She may be admired by the world, but I know the truth,” he says. “So does god and so does Oprah. Two of us remain ashamed.“

Vernon reserves his harshest words for Winfrey’s best friend, Gayle King, who put the kibosh on a biography he was working on.

Calling her a “dirt hog“ and a “street heifer,“ he blames King for a rift in their relationship.

Ouch.

Somehow I get the impression Oprah won't be promoting this book.

Back in 1991 Kelley wrote an unauthorized biography of Nancy Reagan which was received adoringly by the liberal media. To no surprise Kelley won't exactly be having the red carpet rolled out for this book.

You can see an interview with her at The Daily Caller.