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Oprah's Super Soul

Super Soul Special: Ali MacGraw: Aging, Love and Sobriety

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Original Air Date: November 1, 2017 In 1994, iconic actress and author Ali MacGraw left Los Angeles and moved to Santa Fe to live her spiritual journey more fully. In a frank conversation, Ali discusses what she's come to know about aging with grace, shares the real-life lessons in love she learned from her marriages to legendary actor Steve McQueen and famed film producer Robert Evans and opens up about how sobriety allowed her to feel more connected to her soul. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0

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

0:07.6

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.1

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now.

0:24.6

Ali McGraw has never fit the Hollywood mole. When love story, Kostar and Ryan O'Neil captivated

0:30.9

the world, Ali was keenly aware that Stardom was something she would learn to survive

0:36.5

more than save her. After years of deeply spiritual self-reflection, Ali says her tumultuous

0:42.9

Hollywood years were fueled by alcohol rooted in deep childhood insecurities which contributed

0:48.7

to the collapse of her headline making marriages. Now her greatest wish is to live her most

0:53.4

authentic life and start each day being grateful.

0:57.6

I love your hair. Thank you. I love it too. I love it happen that you decided I'm going

1:01.4

to eat.

1:02.4

I turned 75 on April Fool's Day, as you know. And I suddenly thought, you know, enough

1:07.1

is enough. I mean, there's something very funny that I mean, I'm sure there's a million

1:11.2

people out there that think I'm crazy. I felt some kind of change. I really did. It was

1:16.6

subtle. But I think it's all about building up to who are you. My God. I mean, about time,

1:22.2

wouldn't you say? I mean, 75 years of practicing, like, starting to think about it was a good

1:27.3

idea to lock it in. But, you know, I thought I would try it and I live in Santa Fe where

1:32.7

they're the most amazing looking, grown up women, doing incredible things, maybe a brand

1:38.8

new thing, and looking like themselves. And I thought, I'm safe doing this here because

1:44.0

I'm so intimidated in that old way, for example, about walking down Rodeo Drive. Oh, God,

1:52.0

everybody's soon going to say, wow, I know somebody could really do your neck, or what

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