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Oprah Winfrey sobs watching ‘scared’ best friend Gayle King’s Blue Origin mission

April 14, 2025
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Oprah Winfrey sobs watching ‘scared’ best friend Gayle King’s Blue Origin mission
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Oprah Winfrey is so proud of her bestie.

The billionaire, 71, cried when her BFF Gayle King took off into space on the Blue Origin mission Monday morning alongside five others, including Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.

Winfrey was on scene at the launch site in West Texas and told a reporter during the livestream that she wore yellow because King, 70, is “sunshine.”

Oprah Winfrey at the Blue Origin space launch on April 14
Oprah Winfrey and Orlando Bloom at the Blue Origin space launch on April 14. Blue Origin
Oprah Winfrey watching Gayle King go to space
Oprah Winfrey watching Gayle King go to space. Blue Origin
Oprah Winfrey crying as Gayle King goes to space
Oprah Winfrey crying as Gayle King goes to space. Blue Origin

Noting that the pair have been friends for nearly 50 years, Winfrey said she’s “never been more proud” of the “CBS Mornings” anchor.

“This is bigger than going to space for her,” Winfrey stated. “Anytime we’re on a flight, she’s [King] in anybody’s lap if there’s the slightest bit of turbulence, has real, real anxiety flying. And this is overcoming a wall of fear, a barrier.”

Gayle King in her portrait for the Blue Origin space mission
Gayle King flew to space on April 14. Blue Origin/Mega
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King in 2015
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King in 2015. Greg Allen/Invision/AP

“I think it’s gonna be cathartic in so many ways for her,” Winfrey added.

The “Selma” producer explained that she wanted King to go on the space journey because “life is about continuing to grow into the best of yourself and the fullest expression of yourself.”

Oprah Winfrey watches the New Shepard rocket go to space
Oprah Winfrey watches the New Shepard rocket go to space. Blue Origin
Oprah Winfrey on the scene of the Blue Origin all-female space mission launch
Oprah Winfrey on the scene of the Blue Origin all-female space mission launch. Blue Origin

“I think this is one of the most fullest expressions you can possibly have,” Winfrey went on. “I felt deeply that she would regret it, and I didn’t want to hear about it for the next 15 years. ‘I wish I had gone.’ I said there’s only one time that all of the women are going up for the first time. There will be other trips, but there’s only one first time. So to be a pioneer is great.”

Winfrey said that during their final conversation before the space flight, she told King, “Peace be still. Hold to God’s unchanging hand. He’s got your back.”

Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King at the Vera Wang Spring 2003 Collection Fashion Show
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King at the Vera Wang Spring 2003 Collection Fashion Show. DENNIS VAN TINE-LFI
Gayle King with the other Blue Origin all-female crew members
Gayle King with the other Blue Origin all-female crew members. Blue Origin/Mega

Winfrey explained that she felt “so calm” before takeoff as the reporter asked for Winfrey’s take on King being openly “afraid” for the space flight.

“For every woman who is on this flight, it’s about fulfilling something within themselves,” Winfrey noted. “For Gayle, it’s about overcoming this great fear and also stepping into the moment of excitement. It goes beyond this moment of just going into space. I think this will be an everlasting experience.”

Before the New Shepard rocket’s lift off, King looked nervous as she arrived in West Texas for the flight.

Gayle King before flying to space
Gayle King before flying to space. Blue Origin

“Gayle King is literally petrified about going to space?? like are they forcing her to do this…” one person wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“Boyyy, Gayle King looks scared af to go to space,” someone else said.

A third person tweeted, “Gayle is terror-stricken. Shouldn’t have agreed to this Miss Sis.”

The members of the all-female Blue Origin space flight
The members of the all-female Blue Origin space flight. X ACCOUNT OF BLUE ORIGIN/AFP via Getty Images

King, Perry, 40, and Sánchez, 55, were joined by former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn for Monday’s flight.

The group, who wore matching blue space suits, enjoyed a few minutes in space before returning to Earth as part of the all-female 11-minute space tourism flight.

Both King and Perry kissed the ground when they returned to Earth.

Gayle King kisses the ground after returning to Earth
Gayle King kisses the ground after returning to Earth. Blue Origin
Gayle King talking to a reporter about the space flight
Gayle King talking to a reporter about the space flight. Blue Origin

“Oh my God, that was amazing,” King said with a large sigh of relief.

King also told a reporter after the flight, “It’s oddly quiet when you get up there. It’s quiet and peaceful. You look down at the planet and you think, ‘That’s where we came from?’ To me it’s such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better.”

The post Oprah Winfrey sobs watching ‘scared’ best friend Gayle King’s Blue Origin mission appeared first on New York Post.

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