I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

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I just want to say you've been on my mind for months. Thank you for joining me today.

Thanks for having me. It's very exciting.

Well, this year in every issue of O, I'm interviewing a different person every month and what we're

calling our year, big questions. And our big question for this issue, the April issue

that you're in is, what are you willing to stand for? And I said to my team, wow, the

best person to talk to about that is Jimmy Kimmel because it seems like you just stepped

into a different layer of yourself because I always believe we're growing into who we're

supposed to be and that you're just becoming more of yourself. But it seems this past year

was a watershed year that you stepped into a space for yourself. I'm going to go through

the list. You started by hosting one of the most controversial Oscar ceremonies we've

seen in a while in doing a fantastic job of that. You made headline speaking out on gun

control. You lost a dear friend and mentor Don Rickles. You turned 50. And in that emotional

monologue on your show, you shared that Billy had been born fighting for his life after

he was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect. So your experience, I believe, with

Billy's surgeries was somehow a catalyst to bring you front and center into the raging

healthcare debate. Do you see it that way? Absolutely. And it was a very small thing. And I

know this sounds odd, but I was at children's hospital in Los Angeles, which is just an

unbelievably great hospital. And I saw how the nurses and the doctors treat the parents

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