Oprah Winfrey has opened up about her friendships and revealed that she doesn’t “have a lot of friends”.

Speaking on the Making Space with Hoda Kotb podcast alongside her long-time friend Maria Shriver, the 67-year-old former talk show host said she “never really expanded that circle until recently”.

Winfrey spoke about her friendship with Shriver, 65, which has lasted 42 years, describing a “spiritual connection” between the pair when they first met.

“I first met her in the bathroom [while working at] WJZ-TV early in the morning,” she said on the podcast. “I was coming in to do the morning cut-ins and she was doing evening magazine and had been up all night.

“[She] was in the bathroom, literally, splashing water on her face, and we started a conversation.

I forever think that that was a divine moment that happened because she was one of my true, grounded friendships that carried me through my entire career.”

Winfrey added that her other close friendships included TV personality and broadcast journalist Gayle King and personal trainer Bob Greene.

“I don’t have a lot of friends. Everybody knows Gayle. There’s Gayle, there’s Maria, there’s Bob. And that’s about it, you know?” she said, adding that she met King around the same time as Shriver.

“I never really expanded that circle until recently. You know, I had become friends with a couple of people in my later adult life in the past five years.”

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