Colman Domingo's Mother Wrote Letters to Oprah for Years Begging Help

What was said

"She would always say, 'Well, you know, I wrote Oprah today.' I was like, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, you know, she can help you.' I was like, 'What's she gonna do?' 'Well, she helps people, you know. She can help you.' My mother used to write to you over and over again. And she sort of stops and she says, oh, I don't know if I got the letters, but I know I got the message."

Colman Domingo revealed his late mother Edith wrote to Oprah Winfrey approximately eight times in the 1990s asking her to help her struggling actor son. Years later, when Domingo was hiking with Winfrey after working together on The Color Purple, Winfrey told him she may not have received the letters but received the message, illustrating Domingo's mother's prophetic belief that influential figures would eventually embrace her son.