Oprah Winfrey says she's "sorry" that a media frenzy emerged after saying she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland.
"I think that incident in
Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I'm really sorry that
it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store.
I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland," Winfrey said Monday night at
the Los Angeles premiere of "Lee Daniels: The Butler."
"I was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don't expect that you would be able to be there," she continued.
In recent interview with "Entertainment Tonight," Winfrey recalled a clerk at an upscale Zurich boutique refusing to show her a handbag. Winfrey said she was told she could not afford the $38,000 purse.
"I'm in a store and the person doesn't obviously know that I carry the black card and so they make an assessment based upon the way I look and who I am," said Winfrey, who earned $77 million in the year ending in June, according to Forbes magazine.
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