Oprah's Ex-Boyfriend Says She Smoked Crack with Him in the 1980's in New Book

Oprah Winfrey's ex-boyfriend, Randolph Cook, is shopping around a tell-all book that details their time together as a couple. The two dated in 1985, and he claims they did crack cocaine together. This in itself isn't a new revelation; Oprah admitted this in the past, although she never went into the details of the experience and claimed that Cook introduced her to the drug. Cook claims, however, that it was Oprah who introduced him to crack cocaine.

In the book, Cook claims:

“Oprah made a “rock” of cocaine and baking soda in the tube and heated it, a method known as freebasing.

“[Oprah] then put the lit torch on the rock, inhaled and held the smoke in her lungs for a long time. When she finally exhaled, she began to shake violently as she put the pipe down, she had trouble catching her breath and her eyes got big as saucers.”

We smoked at least a couple of times a week. Sometimes we would smoke up until her limo was waiting to take her to the studio to perform her show…”

Oprah admitted to doing crack in 1995 on a show about drug addicted mothers:

In my 20’s, I’d done this drug and I know exactly what you are talking about.” She said the drug use occurred while she was an anchorwoman on a television news show. “It’s my life’s great big secret. It was such a secret because–I realize (with) the public person I have become–if the story ever were revealed, the tabloids would exploit it and what a big issue it would be.”

“But I was involved with a man in my 20s who introduced me to the same drug that you’ve been talking about and, like Patrice, I always felt that the drug itself is not the problem but that I was addicted to the man. I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t have done for that man.”

“I had a perfect round little Afro, I went to church every Sunday and I went to Wednesday prayer meeting when I could… and I did drugs.”

In 1997 Cook sued Oprah for $20 million after his first attempt to publish the book was unsuccessful. He made the claim that no publisher was interested because they didn't want to cross the queen of daytime TV.

The book appears to be self-published now. I wonder what Oprah has to say about all this, and if Cook will be seeing any lawsuits come his way in the near future.