Oprah Winfrey Looks Back at One of The Biggest 'Mistakes' of Her Career | Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip

Oprah WInfrey is taking a trip down memory lane.

On Thursday (July 23), the 72-year-old mogul appeared on Baby This Is Keke Palmer and during this conversation host Keke Palmer playfully brought up Oprah‘s short stint as a singer.

“I think I’m gonna run on,” Keke, 32, began singing, which Oprah quickly shut down.

“Girl, please,” Oprah said when she recognized as one of the theme songs of Oprah. “That is one of the mistakes of my career.”

If you didn’t know, Oprah briefly sang the theme song for her ABC daytime show briefly in the late ’90s.

“It is a mistake,” Oprah reiterated. “So what happened was — what had happened was — I was trying to decide, am I gonna end the show or not end the show? And then I had a little talk with Jesus, and Jesus said, you gotta keep going. And so I said, you know, there’s this song. It’s an old spiritual.’”

She then sang the line that has been implanted in the minds of ’90s kids everywhere who would watch her show after school.

“You got to give them a little slave hymn sometimes,” Keke quipped as Oprah blamed herself for why the song didn’t work on her show.

“And then we realized, I can’t sing,” she said, “even though I took the singing lessons.”

Keke tried to argue that “it wasn’t bad,” but Oprah was adamant, saying, “You know it was bad.”

“You’re just saying that cause you’re looking at me,” she continued. “It was pretty bad.”

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