Oprah’s Farewell, ‘All sweet, no bitter.’ + Oprah’s Post Show Tweet

On September 8, 1986, the first national episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show was broadcast into homes across America. And on Wednesday, May 25, Oprah Winfrey decided to gracefully end 25 years on her show with a ‘Love Letter to her viewers and audience.’ Towards the end of her segment, she shared,

“Every single day I came down from my makeup room on our Harpo elevator, I would offer a prayer of gratitude for the delight and the privilege of doing this show. Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience. The opportunity to have done this work, to be embraced by all of you who watched, is one of the greatest honors any human being could have. And I thank each of you for allowing me to speak in such a way that, no matter what was happening in your life, you could see the best of your selves. For everything there is a season, we know, and our time together on this platform is coming to a close. In a few moments when the final credits roll, I see it not as an ending, but as an extraordinary beginning. One chapter closed. The next chapter beginning for all of us.

I’ve been asked many times during this farewell season, is ending the show bittersweet? Well I say all sweet, no bitter. And here’s why: Many of us have been together for 25 years. We have hooted and hollered together, had our AHA! moments. We ugly cried together and we did our gratitude journals…i thank you all for your support and your trust in me. I thank you for sharing this yellow brick road of blessings. From you, whose names I will never know, I learned what love is. You, and this show, have been the great love of my life.”