Oprah Winfrey opens up again about the Swiss handbag incident at The Butler premiere

Oprah Winfrey opened up about racism and the Swiss handbag incident at the red carpet premiere for The Butler in LA. The 59-year-old billionaire recently claimed that a shop attendant refused to serve her during a trip to Switzerland in what she has said was an act of racism.

She says she was shopping in an upmarket handbag boutique in Zurich last month when she was told that a bag on display was "too expensive" for her, before being shown cheaper ones. Report by Andrea Lilly.

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[merrykrichtsamt]

The world let switzerland become rich with the banking secrecy and neutrality. Now the banking secrecy is gone and neutrality too, Switzerland will become a country like others. If there is a country that is overrated that is switzerland. We have seen it recently with the credit suisse disaster.

[maxellmusic]

Oprah originally told the story to get the "Sympathy Vote" to get people into the movie theaters this week for her new movie, The Butler. Now however, Oprah's having to apologize since the shop worker has spoken and the shop worker could be getting the "Sympathy Vote" now instead. Oprah's now realizing her comments could be jeopardizing ticket sales for the movie and taking her cast members down with her. This is a major misstep. Follow the money, folks, it's always about the money.

[Jeanne]

Uh, naybe it wasn't about race at all... except everything is racist to Winfrey.

[kissarococo]

maybe she is just like Ellen Degeneres....dont believe her

[Ihateeminem]

She should buy the whole store just for laugh! :p

[JayforLife]

She's always focusing on racism way too much.. She's starting to be paranoid

[TheDistrict]

It's all just a promo stunt what better way to get publicity for her new movie the butler that so happens to deal with racism