I was expecting this week’s National Enquirer cover story to be yet another “Oprah is totally gay” piece. But this one has a new twist! Apparently, Oprah is writing her autobiography (and only the Enquirer knows about it) and she’s prepared to finally tell the truth about the gay rumors, her relationship with Steadman, and everything else. So, the “big gay lie” in the headline is actually that people lie about Oprah being gay, basically. The Enquirer claims Oprah has always had “very heterosexual feelings”. Noted! Oh, but Oprah and Steadman have been broken up for years. For real?

New tell-all shocker reveals ALL the secrets Oprah doesn’t want YOU to know! His other men – her other women — The Big O reveals all in shocking new book!

Oprah Winfrey is ready to publish her own tell-all book – and she’ll finally reveal the truth about her relationships with longtime companion Stedman Graham and best friend Gayle King.

Sources tell The ENQUIRER that the blockbuster autobiography will bare Oprah’s deepest secrets, including the sordid gay lie that’s dogged her longtime romance with Stedman and intimate friendship with Gayle.

The media mogul, who’s worth more than $2 billion, will also confess that she’s spent more than $5 million in the never-ending battle to control her weight, according to those familiar with the contents of the book.

But the book’s biggest bombshells involve the agony Oprah has endured over the gay rumors that began soon after she started dating Stedman, a handsome marketing executive, in 1986, sources say.

“Oprah has long shrugged off the persistent story that she and Gayle are lovers, and that Stedman was just a cover for their secret relationship,” an insider divulged.

“She’ll reveal in her book that she broke up with Steadman long ago, even though they continue to be friends. And she admits that if Gayle were a man, she would have married her long ago. But Oprah has very strong heterosexual feelings, and always has.”

Oprah wrote her memoirs years ago, but shelved the book on the advice of family and friends, sources say. But she’s releasing it now to thwart the impact of Kitty Kelley’s unauthorized book, Oprah: A Biography.

The poison pen author – who has skewered Frank Sinatra, the Bush family and Elizabeth Taylor in previous books – interviewed 850 people, including many once-loyal friends of Oprah, for the 544-page exhaustive tell-all.

“Oprah knows Kitty Kelley will dredge up rumors about Steadman and their relationship, so she decided to strike first.”

Oprah will also address the persistent rumor that Steadman is gay as a “vicious, malicious lie.”

[From The National Enquirer]

Apparently, all of the Steadman stuff aside, one of Oprah’s biggest fears is that Kitty Kelley will attack Gayle King, and that Kelley will use anecdotal evidence to prove their sexual relationship. This includes a night when Gayle spent the night at Oprah’s apartment, back when they were starting out in Baltimore. Oprah lent Gayle a pair of panties and that was it. Gay!

Even though I think this report is pretty much crap, I do think Oprah should be slightly worried about Kitty Kelley’s book. I read Kelley’s The Family (about the Bush family) and The Royals (about the Windsors), and she honestly considers it “research” to just reprint whatever tabloid claim is out there. The Royals in particular reads as a flat-out assault on Princess Diana. While I doubt most of Oprah’s loyal fans give Kelley’s book a second glance, Kelley will promote the hell out of it, and Oprah might have to do some damage control.