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“He Was Never My Son”: Oprah Winfrey Speaks About Man Claiming To Be Her Son!

<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;">Looks like Oprah Winfrey&&num;8217&semi;s past has really come back to haunt her &&num;8230&semi; Ironically a few day before Halloween&period; Anyways earlier this week&comma; it was reported that a man named Calvin Mitchell claimed that he was Oprah&&num;8217&semi;s lost son&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;">Well Oprah has spoken up and she says that he is not her son but she does know who he is&period; &&num;8220&semi;<span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">He was never my son&comma;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span>she said to ET’s Nancy O’Dell on Thursday<span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He was a child I befriended … I think it was 1992&period; I was doing a film for television called &OpenCurlyQuote;There Are No Children Here&period;’”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi;">She says that she met Calvin while on set in a Chicago project housing complex where she said a &&num;8220&semi;a cute little sparkly-eyed boy&&num;8221&semi; handed her a soda&period; &&num;8220&semi;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">I was so charmed by him that I started talking to him about his family&comma; his school life and found out that he was in a situation where his mother didn’t have a job and they were stuck in the projects&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">She describes moving Calvin who is now 35 and his family out of the projects and<&sol;span><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">&nbsp&semi;helping his mom gain employment&period; She also placed Calvin in a Chicago private school but he was kicked out&nbsp&semi;two months later for&nbsp&semi;chronic lateness because his family couldn&&num;8217&semi;t afford clocks in the house&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi;">She expressed her disappointment for Calvin&&num;8217&semi;s inability to stay on the right track even after she went out and bought a bag full of clocks as well as placing him in another school&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;I had a long conversation with him about how disappointed I was but I was going to give him another chance&comma;” she continued&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I found a school in Mississippi that was a private boarding school because I thought if I could remove him from the environment that he’d been accustomed to growing up in&comma; that maybe that would be helpful to him&period;”<&sol;span><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;"><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">She&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">did mention that she had a son when she was 14 but he unfortunately passed away&period; In an efforts to lighten up the convo she jokingly says&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I<&sol;span><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">&nbsp&semi;would have to say if I was the birth son&comma; I’d be looking for me too&period; I’d be like &OpenCurlyQuote;Mama&comma; what happened&quest;’”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;">Lord&comma; not sure how to feel about this one&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s chat below&comma; do you think there&&num;8217&semi;s something more to the story than what&&num;8217&semi;s being said&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;"><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;">&nbsp&semi;<img src&equals;"&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;IMG&lowbar;9945&period;png" alt&equals;"">&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 20px&semi;">TSR STAFF&colon; Debra Oh&excl;&excl; &commat;The&lowbar;Ebony&lowbar;Issue on IG&excl;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"margin-bottom&colon; 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