Within 48 hours, radio host Tom Joyner and his co-hosts were discussing the contents of the letter, and commenting on Williams’ speculation that Oprah was salty after Gayle accepted an offer from CBS to co-host their Early Show.
King happened to be listening to the “Tom Joyner” radio show at the time, and said she almost fell off her treadmill. She called in to the Joyner studio and and told the crew, “The letter that I heard Wendy read — I didn’t see it — I know Oprah never wrote a letter to Wendy. I said, ‘I’m getting all these messages that you wrote a letter to Wendy,’ and she goes, ‘Gayle, you know more than anybody knows that that’s not true,’ ” said King.
King took the opportunity to negate Williams’ speculation that her friendship with Oprah was over, insisting Oprah encouraged her to make the move to CBS. ” ‘[Oprah] said, ‘Are you kidding? This is so what you do, the news is what you love … you would be crazy to pass it up!’ ” King recalled.
King warned Joyner, his crew and his audience, “You can’t believe everything you hear and read!”
Now, wouldn’t this story get really get interesting if the person who called in to the radio station was a Gayle King impersonator?
As Marvin Gaye so aptly put it in “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,”… believe half of what you see, son, and none of what you hear.” –kathleen cross
