LOS ANGELES (AP) Oprah Winfrey says she's "sorry" about the media coverage that emerged after she said 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."
In a 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.