Oprah Winfrey fought back tears as she recalled her painful relationship with her mother

During an episode of 'The Oprah Podcast', the TV titan was on the verge of tears as she explained her complication relationship with her mother. She said: "I had been asked to come to church to give all these accolades about my mother. It was important for her to be seen as religious in the community ...

"And I couldn't think of one thing."

Oprah went on to say: "I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't have one memory'. And so, when it came time for me to speak, I thought, 'Well what do I actually have to be grateful for?' She didn't abort me. She did the best that she knew."

She added: "The best that she knew was not enough to feed what I needed, was not enough to make me feel whole, was not enough to make me feel valued or seen or important to her.

"It was not. But it was the best that she could do, and I gave up the hope that it could have been anything other than what she had."

Oprah previously admitted she struggled to find the right words to talk to her mother when she was nearing the end of her life back in 2018.

She told PEOPLE magazine: "In hospice care they have a little book about the little conversations. I thought, "Isn't this strange? I am Oprah Winfrey, and I'm reading a hospice care book on what to say at the end' ...

"She's sitting in this little room - she loves sitting in this room where it's 80 degrees. She just watches TV all day.

"What I said was, 'Thank you. Thank you, because I know it's been hard for you. It was hard for you as a young girl having a baby, in Mississippi.

"No education. No training. No skills. Seventeen, you get pregnant with this baby. Lots of people would have told you to give that baby away.

"Lots of people would've told you to abort that baby. You didn't do that. I know that was hard. I want you to know that no matter what, I know that you always did the best you knew how to do. And look how it turned out'."