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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey on Monday revealed that a Milwaukee blackamoor titled Patricia was the half-sister Oprah never knew about until November.

"Yes, it is true," Winfrey told the conference of her period speech program, "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

"It is genuine that my mother, my care Vernita is also Patricia's relationship mother. That means Patricia is my half miss who I never knew existed," Winfrey said.

Patricia, whose terminal study was not revealed, appeared on Winfrey's exhibit and said she had been upraised in foster homes since geezerhood 7.

Oprah's mom, Vernita Lee, had given Patricia up for adoption because she intellection it would be impossible to get off welfare if she had added child, she said.

Winfrey, 56, said she had no idea she had a half-sister because at the instance Lee was pregnant, she was only nine eld older and experience with her father.

Patricia said she prototypal scholarly she was Winfrey's half miss in 2007, but kept it a secret because she knew it would create a media frenzy.

Winfrey's personal life has been substantially documented. She was dropped in Mississippi to mateless parents and upraised by her grandmother primeval in her childhood. During her teen eld she was shuttled between parents, and was the individual of abuse.

But Winfrey was able to uprise above her difficulties, get an activity and start a occupation in broadcasting.

As a teen woman, she touched to metropolis to impact in TV news and yet hosted her possess TV speech show. She is today considered the most coercive women in U.S. media with co-ownership of newly-launched TV network, OWN.

(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte, redaction by Mike Collett-White)

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