Rachael Ray squashes rumors of Oprah feud

Rachael Ray squashes rumors of Oprah feud

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Rachael Ray squashes rumors of Oprah feud

By Courtney Hazlett
The Scoop
updated 11:07 p.m. ET, Sun., May. 11, 2008

Are Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray feuding? Winfrey’s best friend,
Gayle King, appears on the May 12 episode of “The Rachael Ray Show”
and sets the record straight about rumors that the two chat hosts are
at odds.

“I read something that you two were fighting. I know that’s not true,”
King told Ray. Ray, who was largely catapulted to fame thanks to
Winfrey, said, “Oprah and I hadn’t even spoken in months” when the
latest round of rumors began circulating in late January.

Ray told King that when the news broke, “we had written each other
sweet notes, it was her birthday and I sent her snack of the day and
she sent me a note.”

And although Ray said that she’s gotten to the point of being able to
“laugh it off” when she hears the talk of rumors about she and her
husband, John Cusimano, are divorcing, Ray told King that the latest
faux feud with Oprah was more difficult to swallow.

“The one with Oprah just broke my heart. It really did. It killed me,
I’m like,‘No! We like each other!’”