Oprah Winfrey is very proud of her best friend.
The 71 -year -old billionaire cried when his BFF Gayle King took off the space on the mission of Origin de Blue on Monday morning along with five others, including Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’s’s Fianancee, Lauren Sánchez.
Winfrey was on the scene on the launch site in western Texas and told a journalist live broadcast duration that Shey Yellow because King, 70 is “Sunshine.”
Nothing that the couple has been a friend for almost 50 years, Winfrey said that “she has never been more proud” or the anchor of “CBS Mornings.”
“This is bigger than going to space for her,” Winfrey said. “Every time we are on a flight, she [King] In anyone’s lap, if there is the slightest turbulence, it has a real and real anxiety flying. And this is overcoming a fear wall, a barrier. “
“I think it will be a cathartic in many ways to her,” Winfrey added.
The producer of “Selma” explained that he wanted to go to the space trip because “life is about continuing to become the best of you and the most complete expression of yourself.”
“I think this is one of the most complete expressions you can have,” Winfrey continued. “I felt deeply that she would regret it, and I wanted to know for the next 15 years.” I wish I would have gone. “I said there is time when all women go up for the first time.
Winfrey said that the duration of his final conversation before the space flight told King: “Peace is still. Click on God’s immutable hand. He supports you.”
Winfrey explained that he felt “so quiet” before takeoff, since the journalist asked Winfrey’s version that King was openly “scared” for the space flight.
“For every woman on this flight, it’s about fulfilling something within themselves,” Winfrey said. “For Gayle, it’s about doing so well and also entering at the time of emotion. It goes beyond this moment to go to space. I think this will be an eternal experience.”
Before the new Rocket Shepard took off, King seemed nervous when he arrived west Texas for the flight.
“Gayle King is literally petrified for going to space” as they force her to do this … “, wrote a person in X (previously Twitter).
“Boyyy, Gayle King seems scared to go to space,” said someone else.
A third person tweeted: “Gayle is affected by terror. This lady sis should not have accepted.”
King, Perry, 40, and Sánchez, 55, joined the former Nasa Bowe rocket scientist, the civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn for Monday’s flight.
The group, which used matching blue space suits, enjoyed a few minutes in space before returning to Earth as part of the 11 -minute space tourism flight.
Both King and Perry kissed the ground when they returned to Earth.
“My God, that was incredible,” King said with a great sigh of relief.
King also told a journalist after the flight: “It’s strangely quiet when you get there. It’s quiet and peaceful. You look at the planet and think:” Are we going from there? “For me it is a reminder about how we should do better, it is better.”