U.S. TV host OPRAH WINFREY is "shocked" and "disappointed" her father is writing a tell-all book about her.
The talk show queen was stunned when the New York Daily News recently reported that 74-year-old Vernon was planning to write a book on his daughter and she refused to believe it at first.
She says, "One of my assistants said, 'The Daily News is calling. They say they heard your father is writing a book about you.' I said, 'That's impossible. I can assure them it's not true.' "But then my sister said, 'I think you should call your father.' I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, 'I meant to tell you I've been working on it.' "I was upset. I won't say 'devastated,' but I was stunned. The last person in the world to be doing a book about me is Vernon Winfrey." Oprah admits she hasn't seen her father since their trip to Africa a few months ago, but says, "We talk, we talk, we talk. I would have preferred to have known my father was working on this. It would have been a nice gesture, a courtesy."