Brandy apologizes to Oprah for lying about marriage
R&B star Brandy has publicly apologized to Oprah Winfrey for lying about her marital status on the media mogul's former daytime chat show in 1995.
In a new interview with Winfrey for the talk show titan's Where Are They Now? program, Brandy reveals she felt pressured to tell the host that she was married because she was pregnant.
In recent years, The Boy is Mine singer has confessed her union
with producer Robert Smith was a sham and a cover-up to protect the
fact she was expecting his baby out of wedlock.
Coming clean to Oprah after almost two decades, Brandy says, "At
that time, being pregnant out of wedlock was not a trend. It was
not something that people praised, you know? It was a sin. And I
felt like I could not be honest about that.
"I felt the pressure of... having to be perfect. And I was scared.
I thought that everything that I have worked hard for and
everything that I worked to build, the image that I worked so hard
to build, was threatened."
In the emotional TV encounter, which will air on Sunday (03Aug14),
Brandy tells Oprah, "I'm really sorry for that. I mean, you just
don't lie to Oprah."