Oprah Winfrey slammed for Maui fires fund non-apology: ‘Cry me a river’

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faced backlash from the public after asking fans to donate money to help those affected by the Maui wildfires — despite having a combined net worth of more than $2.8 billion.Although Winfrey, 69, and Johnson, 51, each donated $5 million apiece of their own money to the fund, fans commented that this was a drop in the bucket. “Billionaire asking for money from the poor, what a joke,” an outraged fan commented on Winfrey’s Instagram video.“You have billions.

You could donate $100 million and still be as wealthy as before donating. YOU give the money,” Maribel Rubio criticized Winfrey. “This should be a private message between you and your billionaire mates,” another critic wrote. “It’s so outrageous that you are pleading for money.”During an interview on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday, Winfrey broke her silence about the backlash while speaking with best friend Gayle King. “I was so excited about it, and then I got up the next morning, and I saw all of this vitriol, and I was, like, ‘Whoa, what happened here?’” she said. “It made me sad that we are at this state in our country.”However, a non-apology isn’t passing muster with fans and critics, who are still slamming her on social media, and accusing her of “playing the victim.” “Oprah playing the victim while trying to sell her book.

Gross,” one viewer commented about her “CBS Mornings” interview. Another viewer posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, “Well this didn’t take long- Oprah Winfrey now say’s [sic] that she’s a victim of the Maui fire because people got mad at her when she asked them for donations instead of using some of her own billions to assist Maui residents who lost all in the fires.”Comments on the YouTube page for Tuesday’s interview are also.