The 5 Greatest Confessions Told On Oprah’s Couch

Before Lance Armstrong admitted to using illegal enhancement drugs, his accomplishments seemed superhuman. Then again, something as relatively simple as riding a bike would seem amazing after being diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer. Armstrong, was given a 40 percent chance at living then went on to win the Tour De France five consecutive times. His story, the things dreams are made of, was just too inspiring to question. No one assumed he was taking steroids.

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A 2012 investigation turned up results that proved our obliviousness wrong and devastated/ended the prized athlete’s career. The Illegal enhancements blood-booster EPO and steroids were found in his system. The USADA also revealed that Armstrong received blood transfusions dating back to 1996.

Armstrong vehemently denied the allegations…until he sat down with Oprah! “I will start my answer by saying this is too late. It’s too late for probably most people. And that’s my fault. I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times. It wasn’t as if I said no and I moved off it,” he confessed during the dialogue.

This isn’t the first time Oprah has drawn the truth or the unsaid out of people. When celebrities sit in her presence, it seems their deepest, darkest secrets grow a mind of their own and revolt against being sheltered.

Whitney Houston Admits To Using Drugs

In 2001, Whitney Houston appeared on the “Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Special.” She always had a thin frame, but clearly something was very wrong. Tabloids ran stories calling our beloved “voice” a crack head, anorexic and claimed she was on her deathbed. In 2002, she denied the controversial accusations in the famous Diane Sawyer interview where the saying “Crack is wack” was born. But Whitney was blatantly lying and it took her seven years to confess that she smoked crack through marijuana cigarettes, in an interview with Oprah.

“Lacing marijuana with cocaine,” is how Whitney and Bobby Brown would get high. But we also found out it was a way to deal with the emotional and verbal abuse she would suffer by the man she loved the most. “I was so weak,” she revealed.

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Tom Cruise Confesses Love For Katie Holmes

One of Oprah’s most famous interviews happened on a calm day in May, 2005. Academy Award-nominated actor Tom Cruise visited the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and put on an exhilarating spectacle of ridiculousness as he jumped on the couch, shook Oprah and raised his hands to the sky as he confessed his love for then-wife Katie Holmes! It became the most talked about moment on TV that year.

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Tyler Perry Reveals He Was Abused & Molested

Tyler Perry broke down into tears as he revealed that as a child he was abused by his father and molested by his neighbor. “I feel like I died as a child,” recalled the Madea creator. “I could go to this park [in my mind] that my mother and my aunt had taken me to. … I’m there in this park running and playing, and it was such a good day. So, every time somebody was doing something to me that was horrible, that was awful, I could go to this park in my mind until it was over.”

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He told a chilling story about being beaten until his hands were bloody and mentioned how his father would watch him for hours through a hole in his bedroom door. If that wasn’t heart-wrenching enough, Perry admitted that his male neighbor put his hands in his pants when he was five or six years old. “And I felt my body betraying me, because I felt an erection at that age.”

Rihanna Admits She Still Loves Chris Brown

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When you truly love someone, something about that person always lingers in your heart. Rihanna proved that theory true during her sit-down with Oprah in 2012. Even though she was domestically abused by her former boyfriend Chris Brown, she admitted that she still loved him and was worried about him during the infamous altercation rather than herself.

“Nobody could feel that more than me. I was hurt the most. Nobody felt what I felt. It happened to me and it happened to me in front of the world. It was embarrassing, it was humiliating, it was hurtful it was. It’s not easy. I lost my best friend.”

Mackenzie Phillips Admits To Incest

Hearing child star Mackenzie Phillips reveal that her father would have sex with her while she was passed out from drugs, was utterly disturbing. Mackenzie’s father taught her how to roll marijuana at the age of 10 and by age 11, she upgraded to cocaine.

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“I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. I don’t remember how it started or, thankfully, how it ended. … Was it the first time? Had this happened before? I didn’t know and I still don’t. All I can say is that it was the first time I was aware of it. For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout. Your father is supposed to protect you. Your father is supposed to protect you, not f*** you,” she read aloud on the September 23rd episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”

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