• Oprah Winfrey as soon as wore a Tina Tuner wig “always,” till associate Stedman Graham advised her to cease.
• Winfrey wore the wig throughout the late Nineteen Nineties, when she adopted Turner on her Wildest Desires Tour. 
• Turner died “peacefully” on Wednesday, her household confirmed in an announcement. She was 83.

Oprah Winfrey stated she wore a Tina Turner-style wig on a regular basis earlier than her associate, Stedman Graham, reminded her that she wasn’t the well-known rock ‘n’ roll singer. 

Individuals reported on Winfrey’s wig revelation within the wake of Turner’s demise on Wednesday. Winfrey’s feedback initially got here from an October 2011 interview posted to the OWN YouTube channel.

Within the video, Winfrey says that within the Nineteen Nineties she took “The Oprah Winfrey Present” on the street to comply with Tina Turner on her Wildest Desires Tour for her 1996 album of the identical title. 

“And I had a wig made in order that I could possibly be an element and near Tina in wigdom,” Winfrey stated within the interview. “After which, I would not take the wig off. I did it for the present, I did it for the subsequent present, I feel we did 5 – 6 exhibits across the nation.”

Winfrey then admits she would put on the wig off the present — and even to mattress.

“And in the future Stedman got here and stated to me, ‘I do not know when any individual’s gonna inform you that you’re not Tina Turner,’” Winfrey stated. 

“‘I feel you assume you are Tina Turner and you actually ought to be pleased being Oprah Winfrey,’” Winfrey recalled Graham telling her. 

After that dialog, Winfrey says she “removed my Tina wigs.”

Along with following Turner on tour, which she says within the interview was “the final word groupie story,” Winfrey additionally made a few of her viewers’ goals come true. Within the video, a clip exhibits Winfrey presenting a stunned viewers member with all of her payments paid. 

On Wednesday, Winfrey posted a throwback video of herself and Turner duetting the singer’s hit music, “The Greatest,” throughout a live performance in Los Angeles. 

“Dancing onstage along with her in Los Angeles was essentially the most enjoyable I ever bear in mind having stepping out of my field. Tina lived out of the field and inspired me and each lady to do the identical,” her caption learn partially. 

Outdoors of the present, Turner and Winfrey shared a decades-long friendship, and in a Thursday put up to OprahDaily.com, the discuss present host revealed she discovered of  Turner’s passing from her greatest buddy Gayle King. 

“I had turned my telephone off. Gayle’s telephone was blowing up with messages and condolences for Tina Turner. I heard her say, ‘Oh no, Tina Turner is lifeless,’” Winfrey wrote. 

Within the put up, Winfrey reveals that she thought Turner was going to die in 2019, when she visited the singer at a hospital in Switzerland. In line with Winfrey, throughout the go to, Turner stated “she was prepared to depart this earth.”

Per a household assertion, Turner died “peacefully” after a “lengthy sickness” on Wednesday at her dwelling in Switzerland, the place she lived with husband Erwin Bach. The 2 married in 2013 after courting for 27 years.