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Gayle King reacted to Cindy Crawford‘s recent claim that she felt like she had been treated like “chattle or a child” during an appearance on Oprah Winfrey‘s talk show in 1986.
King, who is a decades-long close friend of Winfrey’s, admitted she was “surprised and a little disappointed” to hear Crawford’s comments about the interview, though she hasn’t yet seen the clip in question.
“It’s not Oprah’s thing to humiliate or make anybody feel badly,” she said to Entertainment Tonight.
She continued, “I know Cindy’s been on her show many, many, many times and it has always been a pleasant experience, [so] I would hate to think that something that happened years ago [could have bothered her].”
The model appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1989 with Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas when she was 20 years old. Crawford reflected on the interview during the new Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models.
“Did she always have this body?” Winfrey asked in the interview before she asked Crawford to “stand up [for] just a moment” on stage for the audience, saying, “This is what I call a body.”
“I was like the chattel or a child, be seen and not heard,” Crawford said in The Super Models. “When you look at it through today’s eyes, Oprah’s like … ‘Show us why you’re worthy of being here.’”
She admitted, “In the moment I didn’t recognize it and watching it back I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so not okay really.’ Especially from Oprah!”
The clip appears to have been switched to private on YouTube by Winfrey and her team after it began going viral. Winfrey has not responded to Crawford’s comments.
But according to King, “Everything is good between Oprah and Cindy.”
Crawford’s confession is one of many admissions made by some of the world’s biggest supermodels in the Apple TV+ docuseries, including Christy Turlington reflecting on posing nude at the age of 17.
The Super Models is now streaming on Apple TV+.
