Gayle King: He Cheated with My Close Friend

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 166.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Join Alex in New York City for an interview with Gayle King. Gayle opens up about navigating sexism and racism in the industry and her 50-year friendship with Oprah. She details the moment she discovered her ex-husband was having an affair with one of her friends and how she eventually ended that marriage. Gayle also reflects on aging, confidence, and embracing every version of herself. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What is up, Daddy, gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. Gail King,
0:12.2	welcome to Call her Daddy. I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you so much. I'm so, so happy to be here with you.
0:18.4	I know you're also very busy, so thank you for taking the time to sit down with me.
0:22.0	Like you're not busy. We are, as a kid say, booked and busy. And you were one of the kids. No. So are you, Gail. Okay. I feel like one of the kids. Honestly, God, I feel like one of the kids. You just told me, you're like, you did your whole morning show.
0:34.2	You're here and then you're going to be on Broadway later.
0:35.8	Yes, yes, yes.
0:37.1	And no time for apps.
0:38.1	Broadway tonight.
0:39.0	Broadway tonight.
0:40.8	Okay. did your whole morning show. You're here and then you're going to be on Broadway later. I'm like, yes, yes, yes. And no time for now. Broadway tonight. Broadway tonight.
0:40.7	Okay. For the past 14 years, you have been hosting the CBS morning show. And in addition to that,
0:48.2	you are the editor at large of Oprah Daily. Yes. You have had such a successful career and I'm just so excited to get into
0:55.9	all of it with you today. I realized something though. What? Last time we were together. Yep.
1:01.6	We kind of went viral. Actually, you went viral. No, you went viral. No, no, you went viral because...
1:08.6	What happened? Okay, let's tell the people if they're not familiar.
1:11.4	What happened?
1:12.7	So I went on Gail's show and...
1:15.2	CBS mornings.
1:15.9	Yes, she did.
1:16.6	CBS mornings, you know.
1:18.1	And Gail proceeds to ask me what my favorite sex position with my husband is.
1:22.5	Like that's an unfair question to you.
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