Rae Dawn Chong recently used the n-word several times to describe her former co-star Oprah Winfrey, USA Today reports, "The Color Purple" actress who starred alongside Oprah in the 1985 film had some very nasty things to say about the media mogul in a June 27 interview for "Matty Happy P's Radio Hour" that TMZ recently got a hold of and, of course, released.
"She was lovely [on 'The Color Purple']," Chong said when asked if the two had bad blood while working on the film together. "It was after when I did 'Commando'
and I was starring with Maria Shriver's husband in the movie. That's when she was a total bioootch."
Chong went on to say that Oprah invited her to be on her talk show, which she never appeared on, before going to say, "She is amazing. I respect her, I think she's done great things for women of color, women of a certain size. I think she's an icon."
However, she added that Oprah is, in her eyes, "a great brown-noser."
"If you're in a room with her, she'll pick the most powerful person and she'll become best friends with them," said the actress. "When we worked with her...she was that fat chick that was the...wannabe cheerleader that was the student council president that was best friends with the principal...she was that fat chick in school that did everything and everybody loved her. That's Oprah -- love me, love me, love me."
But the star continued, "You gotta respect her, no matter how vile she is - 'cause ultimately she's all about Oprah and she's boring - but aside from that, you gotta kinda go, 'Hello, hats off, you have done an amazing thing. You have actually shifted the DNA of the universe."
She then attacked Oprah's looks, calling her the n-word several times.
"She took a woman, if you look at the way she looks - 60 years ago she would have been a housekeeper, luckily. She would not have been a house (n-word), she would've been a field (n-word)," she said. "We have to give her props...I have to stop and say this woman is a miracle and I respect her and I say kudos to you and I don't give two cents about the other parts of it. She shifted the DNA in terms of our thinking of a woman of a certain size and a certain shape. I love her for that. I don't care what she's about, I don't care that I know her ins and outs, I just think that she's done a lot. I love her for that."
