Oprah Winfrey Shuts Down Wedding Rumors – ‘It’s Not True!’

Oprah
Winfrey is not walking down the aisle with longtime
beau Stedman Graham.

The media
mogul shut down rumors that she and Stedman are
planning to tie the knot after 30 years together, revealing how the recent
speculation had even some of her close friends fooled.

“6 people who know me well have called today
congratulating me or surprised they weren’t invited to my wedding,” she
tweeted on Monday. “IT’s NOT TRUE!!”

6 people who know me well have called today congratulating me or surprised they weren't invited to my wedding.
IT' s NOT TRUE!!

— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) September 5, 2016

The chatter ignited after a cover story in Star magazine claimed Oprah and Stedman were finally getting married. Apparently, Oprah hadn’t gotten
the memo.

“Ok.. I was like
what’s going on??”
she tweeted, responding to an OWN Ambassador who gave her a heads up on the
gossip.  

ok.. I was like what's going on??😱

— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) September 5, 2016

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It’s not the first time Oprah’s been
candid about her and Stedman’s marriage plans, or lack thereof.

During a 2015 episode of OWN’s “SuperSoul Sunday,”
the TV titan shared that Stedman had proposed more than 20 years earlier –
something she thought she wanted at the time.

However,
Oprah explained that the idea of matrimony is what ultimately appealed to her,
and not necessarily the reality.

“I
don’t know if I’ve ever said this publicly, but I really wanted to be wanted to
be married to. I wanted Stedman to want to marry me,” she said. 

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Adding,
“The moment he asked me to marry him I was, like… ‘Now I actually have
to get married?'”

Oprah
went on to discuss how she and Stedman postponed their wedding plans amid a
timing conflict with the release of her then-upcoming book. It was then that
she decided to keep the focus on her career.

“What I realized is, I don’t want to be married,” she
admitted. “Because I could not have the life that I created for myself.
… I knew that I couldn’t do it.”

According to Oprah, the topic has yet to come up since.

“We have never discussed it again,” she said.

Now, Oprah’s celebrating a different personal – and
professional – milestone.

Showing off a slimmer figure at the recent
premiere of her and Ava DuVernay’s new OWN drama
series “Sugar Queen,” Oprah told Access Hollywood‘s Alex Hudgens why
she’s excited to be working with the “Selma”
director. The pair is set to team up again on the film adaptation of “A
Wrinkle in Time,” which welcomes Ava as the first African-American woman
to helm a movie with a $100 million budget.

“To do it with someone that you really want to support
and see do well,” Oprah said of her friend. “I’m going to have a good
time!” 

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Oprah also seems to prioritize fun in her and Stedman’s relationship, too. 

“I’ve lost enough weight, he can pick me up and carry me
to the pool,” she joked to People last week of her recent body makeover.
“I can straddle him without breaking his back.” 

— Erin Biglow