Oprah's Ex-Boyfriend Talks About His Relationship With Oprah, Stedman Stealing Her & Gayle King

For some unknown reason, Oprah’s ex-boyfriend, Reginald Chevalier, has come out of nowhere and decided to grant RadarOnline.com an exclusive interview. Obviously he talks about his relationship with Oprah, her relationship with her best friend Gayle King and how he thinks that Oprah’s current boyfriend, Stedman Graham, stole Oprah from him.

Chevalier claims that he and Oprah began a 4 month long relationship after he appeared on her talk show in a look a like segment in the 80′s. At the time he was 25, Oprah was 32. The Haitian filmmaker, who now lives in Los Angeles, says that while dating Oprah, he and Oprah’s current boyfriend, Stedman, were featured in magazine advertisements for a car manufacturer, together and that’s when Stedman began pursuing Oprah. “I remember Stedman used to call, and I would answer the phone and she would tell me, ‘I don’t want to talk to him… I’m not here’. I was p*ssed and I told him she wasn’t there. But I wasn’t going to be malicious about it.”

Reginald said he lived with Oprah, now 57, in her Chicago apartment and even attended the local premiere of her film The Color Purple alongside the star, but soon after that he realized that Oprah had become smitten with another man. Reginald says that at a New Year’s Eve party, Stedman arrived with a female guest and her purpose was to distract Reginald from Oprah the entire night.

“Stedman came with another girl and she was somehow trying to talk to me and every time I turned somewhere, she was there,” he recalled.

“I figured out that Stedman brought the girl in order to distract me from Oprah.

“Every time Oprah would come to talk to me, the other girl was still standing there, giving the appearance that I was tying to pick her up and as if I were the one initiating everything.”

Stedman’s plan — “he knew what the target was” — worked, Reginald added.

Eventually, Oprah locked Reginald out of her home and her life, without even a phone call or in-person goodbye. She left a short and simple note, which he said read: “It’s not going to work out between us.”

A year later Oprah and Reginald crossed paths on the set of her television show and Oprah gave him the cold shoulder, ”She acted like I was a stranger. Someone said something about me that wasn’t true.”

Reginald also decided to give his two cents about Oprah and her best friend Gayle’s relationship. He admits he doesn’t think that they are lesbians, but does think they seem to be closer than sisters; ”They’re just good friends and close, a little more than what two sisters would be.”

“If there was no man in the world for Oprah I think maybe Gayle would be enough for her — perfect for her. They were made for each other. They were always laughing, telling jokes and every time they saw each other, they were happy.”

He described Oprah and Gayle’s relationship as “normal” even though they talked up to three times each day, he said.

“It’s almost like they were teenagers,” Reginald said, and “they played with each other, they talked about everything, they’d tell each other their secrets.

I’m really trying to figure out why this man decided to come out of nowhere and speak on this 26 years later. He must be hard on cash or something. Now I can see why Oprah was so impressed by her sister not talking to the press. Everyone else in her life sure doesn’t have a problem doing this. He needs to go climb back under his rock and leave Oprah, Stedman and Gayle alone. Jeesh.