Gayle King cried during Oprah Winfrey’s emotional interview

Gayle King says she broke down in tears during BFF Oprah Winfrey’s emotional interview with Barbara Walters. During the interview, an emotional Oprah described her friendship with King: “She is … the mother I never had. She is … the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person. I don’t know a better person.”

And Gayle admits the media mogul’s words made her emotional.

“I had just ordered room service and I was sitting there and I watched it,” King told USA Today. “And I called her and said, ‘I’m sitting in my room crying all by myself.”

King then asked her friend why she was moved to tears.

“And she said, ‘I was just caught off guard. No one had asked me the question that way,” King said.

King also addressed the rampant rumors she and Winfrey are lesbian lovers.

“It used to bother me, and now I say, ‘OK, if people believe it, there’s nothing we can do to change their minds,” she said. “It’s just silly that we would deny or hide that because it implies something is wrong.

“That’s what bothers me more than anything. There’s nothing wrong.”