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Making Space with Hoda Kotb

Oprah Winfrey & Maria Shriver: “The Word Was Cherish”

Making Space with Hoda Kotb

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4.910.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver open up about their forty-two-year friendship and what it has meant to them in an insightful conversation with Hoda Kotb.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So if you ever wondered what it would be like to be best friends with Oprah Winfrey, now

0:09.7

we all know that Oprah has gale, but Oprah also has Maria Schreiber.

0:16.2

They go back more than 40 years.

0:19.0

Their friendship has endured so many of life's big moments.

0:22.9

Love, loss, birth, death, divorce, even growing older.

0:29.4

I'm about to invite you into a conversation so intimate and reflective.

0:34.5

It's kind of like you're out to dinner with the two of them as they look back on their

0:38.0

friendship and look ahead too.

0:40.6

Maria and Oprah both spent their lives listening to others share their stories.

0:46.0

And today kids, we're going to listen to theirs.

0:50.4

I'm Hota Kati.

0:52.2

Welcome to my podcast Making Space.

1:12.1

I-is this starting?

1:13.1

I don't.

1:14.1

I think so.

1:15.1

The first time.

1:16.1

Ah!

1:17.1

Okay.

1:18.1

I just want to say that we both love you.

1:22.0

Yeah, because we've never done this before.

1:24.4

I just had to do it because Hota asked both of us just to ask because it was you.

1:29.2

No, no, no.

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