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Oprah Winfrey has just admitted that she doesn’t actually have a lot of friends, which we find quite shocking.

We know that the 67-year-old talk show host considers Maria Shriver, Gayle King, and Bob Greene as her closest friends, but we’re surprised to find out that her friendships don’t extend much further than that.

Oprah appeared on the Making Space with Hoda Kotb podcast on Monday, and spoke with longtime BFF Maria Shriver about their 42 years of friendship, which all started from the “spiritual connection” between them the first time they met…

“I first met her in the bathroom while working at WJZ-TV early in the morning. I was coming in to do the morning cut-ins and she was doing evening magazine and had been up all night,” Oprah said about Maria Shriver.

“She was in the bathroom, literally, splashing water on her face, and we started a conversation. I forever think that that was, like, a divine moment that happened because she was one of my true, grounded friendships that carried me through my entire career.”

Oprah then confessed that, apart from Maria Shriver and a very select few that she could probably count on one hand with a few fingers left over, she doesn’t have many close friendships…

“I don’t have a lot of friends,” she continued, before naming everyone in her inner circle.

“Everybody knows Gayle [King]. There’s Gayle, there’s Maria, there’s Bob [Greene]. And that’s about it, you know? Gayle and Maria, I met around the same time; Gayle and I have been friends for 42 years, Maria and I have also been friends for 42 years.”

Wow – well we always say that it’s about quality, not quantity, and Oprah and her close friendships have more than proved that! Besides, over 40 years of friendship is nothing to be ashamed of!

Oprah concluded by revealing that over the past few years, she has expanded her circle ever so slightly…

“I never really expanded that circle until recently. You know, I had become friends with a couple of people in my later adult life in the past five years.”

Hm, we wonder who those people are…