Please show her the money.
Gayle King said she lent a former boyfriend $4,000 to pay for “child support issues” and furniture.
“We went on a date and I was really looking forward to it. We had been dating for maybe two months and he told me he really wanted to talk and have a private conversation,” she said. . I was reminded of this on a recent episode of the podcast “The Pivot.”.
That’s when the CBS Morning co-host, who is close friends with Oprah Winfrey, asked her to lend him $4,000.
“You know Oprah said, ‘I would have felt better if you had said $40,000,'” King quipped.
“I was so devastated because here was someone who was making six figures of success,” she added.
“And I said, ‘Can I ask what it’s for?’ and he said, ‘Yeah.'” It was to pay for child support issues and furniture. . ”
King said his partner has vowed to pay him back by this coming Thursday.
“I wrote it [the check] “Because I thought it would be a very difficult thing for him to ask me and I thought that would be it,” she explained.
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She said the unidentified man paid his “King Charles” co-host on time, but the incident made him look at the relationship differently.
“I didn’t feel the same way. It just changed the relationship for me,” she confessed.
Elsewhere in the interview, King talked about how difficult it is for her to date because men say she’s “intimidating.”
“Someone said to me one time, ‘Gail, look at your shoes…look at your bag, look at your coat.’ You’re friends with Oprah,” she said.
“Some guys look at that and say, ‘You can’t compete with that.’ But what I mean is, it’s not about competing. I’m not looking for anyone to compete. .”
King said she is looking for someone with a good sense of humor, who is “very secure” and who won’t be afraid “no matter what happens.”
The broadcast journalist married lawyer William Bumpass in 1982.
The couple, who had a daughter, Kirby, and a son, William, split in 1993 after she witnessed Kirby naked in bed with another woman in June 1990.
