Oprah & Maria Shriver on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
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Who are Oprah Winfrey's and Maria Shriver's lifelong friends?
This episode of the Oprah Podcast is presented by Lilly Direct, your online healthcare resource. Hello to you, dear podcast listener and YouTube watcher. I know your time is valuable, so I am thanking you all for taking the time to be with me here. My guest today is a long, long, long time friend, Maria Shriver. Actually, Maria and I have been friends as long as Gail and I have been friends, and we all met in the same place at WJZ-TV in Baltimore. Correct. We met when we were both in our early 20s, so I've known you now for, we've been friends for 49 years.
Yeah.
And I knew that Maria was writing a book, and I asked her to send me her new book, I Am Maria, My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home. I have to tell you all and to tell you that I read this on a rainy day, sitting in my window seat, and I wept. I wept because I've known you all these years. Maria Shriver has lived an extraordinary life, most of it in the public eye. She was born into American political royalty. Her father, Sergeant Shriver, was an American diplomat and was once a candidate for vice president of the United States. Her mother was Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was the sister of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Eunice was the founder of the Special Olympics. Maria grew up the only girl in her family with four brothers. In 1986, Maria married the world-famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who later became governor of California. Together, they have four children, Catherine, Christina, Patrick, and Christopher. They divorced in 2021.
Maria is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and former national news anchor. She served four years as First Lady of California. She's the creator of the award-winning digital publication, The Sunday Paper, which I love to read every week. Maria is the best-selling author of many books and one of the world's leading advocates for women's health and Alzheimer's research. And now she is a loving and doting grandmother to her daughter Catherine's children with actor Chris Pratt, Lila, Eloise, and Ford. In this book, you have opened, literally opened your soul and allowed all of us who have any feelings of loss or grief or not being enough or not being able to show up for ourselves. You have led us to the open field. And bless you for that.
And I am so proud of you for that. And it's all in the form of poems. And you go places I thought you would never go. I want to say I really, really, really am just honored that you have become... and evolved into the woman that you are. And I'm so honored to have you as my friend.
Oh, thank you. Well, I'm so honored to have you as my friend. And I love the idea of having such a long friendship. I love the idea of meeting somebody in my early 20s. We didn't know what was going on.
I remember seeing you in the bathroom that morning because you were... We were working on Evening Magazine. Yeah. And you'd been up and I said, whoa, what are you doing here? And you said, I've been up all night and you're throwing water on your face.
And we lived in the same apartment complex. We lived in the same apartment complex. We shopped at the same supermarket. We ate in the same supermarket. That's right.
We would sit there and have those crab cakes.
Yes, in Baltimore. In the supermarket, very glamorous. But the idea of having such a long friendship, you see someone through a marriage. You were in my wedding. I was in your wedding, yes. All my children. You were there when I got separated. You were there when I got divorced. You're there for me now. And I feel like hopefully I've been there for you through all of your transitions, through all the people you've been involved with, right? Yes. And I think that's one of life's greatest gifts, to have a relationship that stands the test of time. And that's given me the strength to be standing here. I write in this book that when I got separated, it was a masterclass in friendship. And you were there for me. As you well know, you smile, but at every step of the way. And I think that's how we become who we are meant to be, is that people...
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