Oprah Winfrey Opens Up about Her father illness

Oprah Winfrey is to the extreme for her dad! The media billionaire, 68, commemorated the Fourth of July on Monday, throwing the father of her children, Vernon Winfrey at a surprise celebration.

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The video was then wrapped by showing her father enjoying moments in the place he knew best. "My father is a barber and we placed him in the barber's chair"

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