Oprah Winfrey's mother Vernita Lee died in her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Thanksgiving, PEOPLE confirms. She was 83 Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Lee gave birth to Patricia in Milwaukee in 1963 and gave her up for adoption. Winfrey was living with her father in Tennessee at the time. Winfrey and Patricia’s mother Vernita Lee died on ...

During the latest episode of her The Oprah Podcast, the legendary talk show host opened up about her relationship with her ...

She was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey, their only child as Vernita was a single teenage mother. She famously grew up in poverty. But Vernita ...