CALVIN MITCHELL IS NOT MY SON, OPRAH WINFREY CRIES OUT

 TV personality and entrepreneur, Oprah Winfrey has cleared the air relating to the ambiguity in the relationship that exists between she and her 'son', Calvin Mitchell.
In an interview with ET, she disclosed that she met Calvin during a video shoot in Chicago and in the course of her chat with him, discovered that there were many areas than one where Calvin and his family needed her humanitarian interventions. In her own words,  "I met Calvin around the early '90s, I think it was 1992. I was doing a film for television called There Are No Children Here,"

"We were shooting in the projects in Chicago and I was sitting on set during a break, and this cute little sparkly-eyed boy came underneath the yellow tape to hand me a soda. I was so charmed by him that I started talking to him about his family, his school life, and found out that he was in a situation where his mother didn't have a job and they were stuck in the projects." 

She disclosed that she took it upon herself to enroll him in a school from which he was eventually expelled after a few months. Worried about the influence his immediate environment may have on his academic works, she enrolled him in a boarding school in Mississippi but Calvin insisted he couldn't stay in a boarding school because "the teachers didn't like him."

In the interview, she further informed that her last contact with Calvin was in the '90s and that his attempt to speak with her after a taping of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was a set up:
"When I realized the whole thing was a setup, I was no longer interested in speaking to him," she continued, noting that she's not hurt, but is "disappointed." She indicated that her experience with Calvin informed her decision to open her Leadership Academy for Girls in 2007 because "I learned from that experience, if you really want to change somebody's life, you gotta be able to spend enough time with them to change the way they think about what their life can be," she said. "It isn't enough to give a person a new life or money or a new car, you have to teach them how to fish themselves."