A NO-HOLDS-BARRED CONVERSATION WITH FORMER OPRAH SHOW EXPERT IYANLA VANZANT
She was a regular on The Oprah Show in the late '90s. Get to know the no-nonsense relationship expert.
Iyanla Vanzant
Apology Accepted?
Watch what happens when Oprah and Iyanla reunite on The Oprah Show stage after 11 years.
Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant
True Intentions
Iyanla told Oprah it was the "anointed time" to do her own show. What she says she really meant.
Iyanla Vanzant was a force to be reckoned with—a relationship expert with some of the best no-nonsense, hard-hitting advice Oprah had ever heard. When she first took The Oprah Show by storm in 1998, Iyanla was a popular author, speaker and spiritual coach. Iyanla's humorous style and life-changing advice struck a chord with women everywhere. Her message was simple: To live better, you've got to love yourself.
Oprah says people believed in Iyanla because she was a real-life, triumph-over-tragedy success story. This teen mother and rape survivor lived off welfare until she turned her life around by putting herself through law school and launching a self-help empire. Over the years, Iyanla sold more than 8 million books, including In the Meantime and One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, two New York Times bestsellers.
Oprah Show viewers first met Iyanla during Season 12, and over the next year and a half, she graced the stage 20 times. While hundreds of experts have come and gone over the years, few have captivated Oprah's audience like Iyanla.
But, for unexplained reasons, Iyanla made her last Oprah Show appearance more than 11 years ago. What caused her rumored rift with Oprah? Today, Oprah's setting the record straight.
feed back ....: Lyania and Oprah,two very strong women talking real take,not as enemies,but as friends mending a relationship. A relationship that was broken into pieces is called healing.They really had to air this to the people as a process that would allow them to fall back in love. Lyania needed to feel as if she was still in the good graces of the most powerful women in the world. It felt like she had SINNED. Thanks for the free lesson of LOVE. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.