The former talk show host traveled around the country during the singer’s 1997 “Wildest Dreams” tour, wearing a hairpiece to look like the rock star.
The former “Oprah Winfrey Show” host, 69, was close friends with Turner and in a, she shared the story behind her decision to don a Tina-inspired wig “at all times” and follow her idol on the 1997 “Wildest Dreams” tour.
“It was the ultimate groupie story,” Winfrey says in the re-surfaced YouTube clip, sharing that she decided to pack up her talk show “at great expense” and travel to different cities while attending Turner’s concerts.“I had a wig made so I could be a part and close to Tina in wigdom,” she recalls. “And then I wouldn’t take the wig off.”
Clips of the media mogul wearing the short, shaggy hairpiece flash on the screen in the clip as Winfrey laughingly reveals, “I did it for the show, I did it for the next show, I think we did five or six shows around the country.”While Winfrey first sported the Tina wig on her show, she started wearing it at home, too.Winfrey joined Turner for the opening of “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” in November 2019.
“One day Stedman came and said to me, ‘I don’t know when somebody’s gonna tell you,'” she shares, adding that he told her, “you areWhile Winfrey originally didn’t get what he was saying, Graham eventually told her, “it’s a problem. It’s become a problem. I think you think you’re Tina Turner.”The duo shared a close friendship over the years.
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