Oprah Winfrey has spoken out after she was ambushed by a man claiming to be her 'secret son'

Oprah Winfrey has spoken out after she was ambushed by a man claiming to be her 'secret son' as she left a taping of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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The 61-year-old media mogul was photographed as she attempted to deal with the man, Calvin Mitchell, during an awkward encounter outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York on October 15.

The National Enquirer had arranged for Mitchell to run into Oprah after he told the tabloid he wanted to reconnect with the talk show host after becoming estranged from her for 20 years.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight’s Nancy O’Dell, Oprah revealed that although she didn’t immediately recognize Mitchell, she did try to make contact with him after their run-in. 

She confirmed that Mitchell is not her birth son, but she admitted she was ‘so charmed’ by him when they met in the early 1990s, she did everything she could to help his family.

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Oprah told ET: ‘I met Calvin around the early '90s, I think it was 1992. I was doing a film for television called There Are No Children Here.

According to Daily Mail, Oprah said that she has not spoken to Mitchell since he quit the private boarding she had enrolled him in more than 20 years ago but was keen to reconnect after seeing him again this month.

But now, after realizing he had sold his story to the tabloids and their encounter was a set-up, she wants nothing to do with him.

Daily Mail UK