Oprah Winfrey Didn't Leave Her Home for 322 Days During the Pandemic, Talks About Being in Isolation

Oprah Winfrey is opening up about the amount of time that she spent inside her home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 68-year-old talk show icon revealed in a new interview that she didn’t leave her house for nearly a year and explained why she didn’t mind being in isolation. “I didn’t leave home for 322 days — literally did not leave the house,” Oprah told the Los Angeles Times. Click inside to read more… Oprah noted how some of her friends would “make fun of” her because she was so careful.

She said that she was surprised by “how well I was able to adjust to the isolation and not being around other people.” “I remember one point [close friend Gayle King] said, ‘Don’t you just miss being around other people?’ I go, ‘Eh, not really.’ And I think it’s because every day, I was in an audience of 350 people twice a day [on The Oprah Winfrey Show], so I’ve had shaking hands and autographs and selfies, and lots of attention, and exposure to being around a lot of people,” Oprah told the outlet. “I was able to be with myself in a way that I haven’t been able to for years, because usually, even if I take time off for myself, I’m thinking about what is the next thing to come,” she said. “Overall, I was able to adjust because I have the ability [and] really strong sense of being in this present moment and living this moment without having to worry about the next.” Oprah noted her privilege in the situation. “You can do that when you don’t have to worry about where your next paycheck is coming from.

I didn’t have to worry about, ‘Am I going to have rent? Am I going to be able to get food? Am I going to be able to keep the lights on and am I going to be able to take care of my children?’ ” she said.