It just is.'Īs for all that speculation that the women are more than friends, King says she could care less. 'Why would she say that to me? I know we mean a lot to each other, but no, we don't go around expressing our love for each other. 'Why would she say, 'You're the mother I never had?!' King laughs. The O magazine editor tells USA Today that despite 30 years of friendship, she and Winfrey have never really vocalized their feelings about each other. No one had asked me the question that way.' ' 'I called her and said, 'I'm sitting in my room crying all by myself,' ' says King, who, despite the touching tribute, asked Winfrey why she started sobbing.
She is the friend that everybody deserves.' King, 55, tells USA Today she was in Tasmania when she watched the ABC TV special in which Winfrey, 56, described her as 'the mother I never had. King admits that she, too, found herself bawling because of her BFF. Oprah Winfrey wasn't the only one moved to tears as she told Barbara Walters about her friendship with Gayle King.
