The 61-year-old philanthropist and media mogul opens up about watching loved ones struggle in the February issue of O magazine.
“In recent years I’ve come face-to-face with mental illness, as several people close to me were hospitalized with severe suicidal depression and manic and schizophrenic thoughts,” she says. “More than once I’ve sat in the psych ward waiting to hear the diagnosis.”
Winfrey, the new part-owner of Weight Watchers, reveals that she’s also suffered from her own anxiety and depression in the past.