Oprah; Sally Field and Burt Reynolds.Photo: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images; Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
Oprah Winfreysays there’s one interview question that still haunts her.
Winfrey, 67, appeared as a guest onRob Lowe’sLiterally!podcaston Wednesday, where she looked back on asking actress Sally Field an uncomfortable question about the now 74-year-old’s former partnerBurt Reynoldsduring a sit-down years ago.
“This is when I was younger and I was not living from the point of view of the surrogate,” Winfrey explained to Lowe, 57, adding that she “did feel a responsibility” at the time to ask Field about Reynolds. (The pair dated for several years in the late 70s; Reynoldsdiedin September 2018 at the age of 82.)
“I asked her, ‘Does Burt sleep with his toupee on?’ " Winfrey recalled.
As Lowe expressed his shock at Winfrey’s question, theWrinkle in Timeactress admitted, “I even say now, I cringe to even think that I asked that question.”
“But I asked it because the producers are like, ‘You have to ask, you have to ask, you have to ask. That’s what everybody wants to know,’ " added Winfrey. “And so I asked it and she went cold on me. She shut down and I could not get in again. I could not.”
Lowe then gave his own two cents on Field, having worked with the famed actress on the ABC family drama seriesBrothers & Sisters.
“She’s one of the most amazing actors I’ve ever known, but when Sally goes cold, it’s like Khrushchev in the Cold War,” said Lowe. “She will bury you.”
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“Meanwhile I still want to know,” Lowe said with a laugh.
“She certainly didn’t answer it. And then it didn’t matter what else I said,” Winfrey said.
Winfrey previously reflected on asking Field the pointed question back in 2005 during awide-ranging interviewwithToday’s Billy Bush.
“It was a bad question,” Winfrey said. “I wouldn’t do it today.”
source: people.com
