Oprah's Ex-Lover Says TV Queen Was 'Cold As Ice'
Feb. 15 2011, Published 11:00 a.m. ET
Move over Stedman, here comes Reginald!
Before Stedman was Oprah’s main man she had another main squeeze that no one ever knew about – Reginald Chevalier.
On Tuesday, Gawker.com released an interview with Oprah’s former flame who talked about their brief courtship and the day the talk show queen locked him out of her home and her life - without even a phone call or goodbye, calling her “cold as ice.”
So who is Oprah’s former lover? He’s a Haitian filmmaker, who met the media mogul when he appeared on her show in 1985 to do a look-alike segment – and on the same day, the two began their four-month-long affair. He was 25 and she was 32.
"She was doing a segment on look-alikes and at the time I looked like Billy Dee Williams,” he told Gawker. “She later confided that she instructed her producers to keep me backstage after the show. She threatened to fire them, if I got away. She took me to lunch at the Water Tower restaurant and ordered stuffed mashed potatoes for both of us."
Chevalier contacted Gawker and recalled his memories of his short-lived relationship with Oprah, including candlelit baths, watching TV, shopping, frequenting Chicago Bears football games and outings with celeb friends.
“I remember how she love