Winfrey finds half-sister who was given up for adoption in 1960s by talk show host's mother
By Don Babwin, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press
Monday January 24, 2011
CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey says she's learned she has a half-sister she never knew about.
Winfrey announced on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired on Monday that a Milwaukee woman named Patricia discovered that the two were half-sisters.
The woman says she had been searching for years for the identity of the mother who gave her up for adoption in 1963. She says she learned in 2007 that Winfrey was her half-sister. On her program, Winfrey says she learned about Patricia last November.
Winfrey says she was 9 years old and living with her father when her mother had the daughter and gave her up for adoption. She says she never even knew her mother was pregnant.
Winfrey says the two met on Thanksgiving day.
