“You get a car! You get a car! You may have a car!” – and a nugget of wisdom!
A lucky fan of Oprah Winfrey, who was considered one of the lucky ones to receive diamond earrings, a luxury handbag and a brand recent car at the tv icon’s “favorite things” giveaway, reveals what the talk show host told the gang because the cameras stopped rolling.
“I was within the audience of the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2010 when she gave a Volkswagen Beetle for Christmassaid Candi Davis from Chicago on her popular TikTok. “It was a crazy, crazy day.”
Within the clip, which has garnered greater than 3.1 million views, Davis, the married mother of two, explained that Winfrey, now 69, who in September 2004 was with viewers on the show after rewarding them with each shiny recent vehicle. (Winfrey allegedly paid taxes for every recipient of cars donated on Davis’ show day.)
Representatives for Oprah Winfrey didn’t immediately reply to The Post’s request for comment.
“She kicked off her gold high-heeled shoes and sat on the sting of the stage and talked to all of us,” recalls Davis of the November 2010 exchange. “And she said, ‘I know you do not feel such as you deserve any of these items, and you do not.'”
“None of you deserve this,” continued the winner of the car from Winfrey’s purported address. “But you might be worthy of it, and I want you to do not forget that.”
Davis praised Winfrey’s casual speech as “a beautiful moment”.
Nonetheless, cynical critics on social media argued that the supposed word of encouragement was actually a thinly veiled diss as an alternative.
“None of you deserve it, but you might be value it” … appears like a second-hand compliment – wrote a concerned commentator.
“I didn’t like what she said. Don’t you deserve it? said one other skeptic.
“Her remarks [were] fallacious,” one other hater wrote partly.
“His [giving] handwritten compliment,” one other opponent repeated, to which Davis responded by saying, “It wasn’t meant to be like this. me only didn’t tell the story properly“.
In a follow-up post, Davis clarified that Winfrey’s comments were meant to uplift, not detract from, the reinforcements of her broadcast.
“When the show ended, the audience was filled with people crying, very emotional about what all of us just experienced after we received the car as a gift,” said Davis.
“Plenty of people said, ‘I should sell the car and provides the cash to my kids,'” she added, noting that folks were too humiliated by Winfrey’s kindness.
Davis continued, “Oprah overheard a part of this conversation and said, ‘Let me hold you. You do not deserve it, and if you happen to feel you do not deserve it, that is necessary. But I want you to feel value it. I want you to simply accept it. I want you to drive out of here and never feel bad. Take the guilt out of getting this car.”
To be clearer, Davis said of Winfrey, “She meant it in a really sweet way. It wasn’t a handwritten compliment.”
Elsewhere, a woefully misunderstood mom explained that each member of the audience was able to doing it select color their 2012 Volkswagen – which wasn’t even in the marketplace on the time of the giveaway.
And when the cars were able to be picked up, she and her co-beneficiaries could pick up their individual rides, each wrapped in a large red bow, from local dealerships.
In one other post, Davis – who confirmed online that she is kept his cherry Volkswagen Beetle in decent condition during the last 12 years – she showed off other elegant swag loot she won in an exclusive contest, including Le Creuset cookware, a burgundy Coach purse, sequin Ugg boots, diamond pear-shaped earrings, and a car keychain that Winfrey’s production staff handed out during filming .
“It was [all] really fun to take care of,” she said.