"I saw it as a new form of church," Oprah Winfrey says of Tyler Perry's stage work. PRINCE WILLIAM/ GETTY IMAGESIn Sunday night’s revelatory interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed how billionaire filmmaker Tyler Perry swooped in to help the couple. “It was always described as ‘the struggling OWN network,’” Winfrey told Forbes in 2019 in an interview about Perry. When Perry finally left Winfrey’s network last year to launch a streaming service of his own with BET, Winfrey gave him her blessing. “Watching examples like Oprah, owning The Oprah Winfrey Show, and understanding what that meant.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2021 04:41 UTC