While chatting with CNN's Piers Morgan in January 2011, Oprah Winfrey revealed that, after getting pregnant at 14 years old, she tried to drink laundry detergent in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy (via New York Daily News). At the time, the future actress and talk show host tried to make sense of the turn her life had taken at an early age.
"Getting pregnant was a result of bad choices, not having boundaries, sexual abuse from the time I was 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13," Winfrey said, before explaining that she began doing "crazy stuff that you do when you're trying to get attention, when you're really just trying to cry for help."
Tragically, Winfrey would later lose her child shortly after giving birth (more on this below). A loss, of course, is often accompanied by some form of grief, but looking back on the way everything played out, Winfrey was able to find the silver lining. She later told Good Housekeeping UK, "I didn't want babies. I wouldn't have been a good [mom] for babies. I don't have the patience." She then quipped, "I have the patience for puppies, but that's a quick stage!"
