“Dearest Oprah, you have been a shining light to my family and my community,” Simmons shared on his social media. “Contributing so much to my life that I couldn’t list a fraction of it in this blog. I have given you the gift of meditation and the groundbreaking book THE POWER OF NOW. We bonded, to say the least. This is why it’s so troubling that you choose me to single out in your recent documentary. I have already admitted to being a playboy more (appropriately titled today ‘womanizer’) sleeping with and putting myself in more compromising situations than almost any man I know. Not 8,000 or 14,000 like Warren Beatty or Wilt Chamberlain, but still an insane number. So many that some could reinterpret or reimagine a different recollection of the same experiences.”
He continued: “I have refused to get in the mud with any accusers, but let’s acknowledge what I have shared. I have taken and passed nine three-hour lie detector tests (taken for my daughters), that these stories have been passed on by CNN, NBC, Buzzfeed, NY Post, and others. Now that you have reviewed the facts and you should have learned what I know; that these stories are unusable and that ‘hurt people, hurt people.’ Today I received a call from an old girlfriend from the early 1980s, which means that they are using my words/evidence against me and their commitment / (all of the claims are 25 to 40 years old). It is impossible to prove what happened 40 years ago, but in my case, proof exists of what didn’t happen. Mostly signed letters from their own parents, siblings, roommates, band members, interns, and in the case of two of your three accusers, their own words in their books. Shocking how many people have misused this important powerful revolution for relevance and money…I’ve never been violent or forced myself on anyone.”
Simmons concluded his lengthy post by urging Winfrey to work with him “on uplifting humanity and put this moment and old narrative behind.”
Winfrey has yet to respond to 50 Cent or Simmons.
