Oprah Goes Back On Her Word – Reveals There’s ONE Thing That Could Make Her Run For President

Oprah has said MULTIPLE TIMES that she’s not running for President.

Well… that doesn’t seem all that clear anymore.

She’s saying there’s ONE thing that could make her run…

God Himself.

According to People:

There’s only one thing that could make Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020.

Amid calls for her to consider a run for the White House — from fans as well as her closest friends — “I went into prayer,” she tells PEOPLE in the magazine’s new cover story. “ ‘God, if you think I’m supposed to run, you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.’ And I haven’t gotten that.”

Somewhere Elizabeth Warren is praying God goes mute.

(It’s not beneath her.)

The media mogul and star of the new movie A Wrinkle in Time found herself in the political spotlight after her inspiring speech at the 2018 Golden Globes while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Winfrey had the crowd of Hollywood’s biggest stars on their feet and in tears with her moving words and promise that “a new day is dawning.” She was surprised to hear the immediate response the rest of the country had.

“When I walked off with Reese [Witherspoon], I thought, ‘I got that done,’ ” she says. “It wasn’t until I was back in the press room that they said, ‘Do you realize you’re trending?’ ”

Winfrey says her best friend Gayle King urged her to take the possibility seriously and peppered her with messages of support from others who would back her.

“I had people—wealthy, billionaires—calling me up and saying, ‘I can get you a billion dollars. I can run your campaign,”‘ she reveals. “That many people saying something made me think, ‘Am I at least supposed to look at the question?’ ”

Yeeeeeeah this sounds like a major back-pedal from the “OMG NO WAY NOT IN MY DNA” line she was pushing earlier.

Then she went on about her South African school:

In the issue, the mogul opens up about working with Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and young newcomer Storm Reid on the highly anticipated A Wrinkle in Time and her emotional decision to finally say #MeToo and talk about her experience with sexual abuse.

Winfrey also says she had no regrets about not raising children with longtime partner Stedman Graham, saying instead that the South African girls she helps through her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls have been “enough.”

“It was just the right combination of mentor, mother, leader, guide. Just to see all of them blossom into these flourishing human beings,” Winfrey says. “They delight me. Make me laugh a lot. They have surprised me in ways that have brought wonder and great joy.”

And while the school has done good for many of those girls, it has also been wrought with scandal.

According to ABC:

Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in South Africa is being rocked by a fresh scandal as police investigate the body of a newborn found in one of the student’s bags, police said today.

The baby’s body was found last Wednesday in a bag the 17-year-old girl brought to a hospital where she was being treated for excessive bleeding, police Lt. Col. Lungelo Dlamini told ABC News in a statement.

It is believed that the girl, who has not been identified, gave birth at her school, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, which is located outside Johannesburg.

No charges have been filed against the girl and police will discuss the case with the Director for Public Prosecutions once the investigation has been finalized.

Police Capt. Shado Mashobane confirmed to local newspapers that the girl is still recovering in the hospital.

A spokesperson for Winfrey’s academy in Chicago told ABC News that it would not comment on the incident because a minor is involved.

Winfrey’s leadership academy has had problems in the past. Shortly after the all-girls high school opened in 2007, a school matron, Virginia Tiny Makopo, was charged with sexually molesting several girls. At the time Winfrey flew to South Africa to offer a personal apology to the students and their parents, citing her own experience with sexual abuse.

She also fired the school’s headmistress, Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane.

Makopo was acquitted of all charges.

“I will forever be proud of the nine girls who testified with the courage and conviction to be heard,” said Winfrey in a statement.

Winfrey was later sued by Mzamane for defamation and the suit was settled out of court. The terms of the settlement were not revealed.

So… are you expecting an Oprah 2020 run? Because it looks like it might just be back on the table…