'Now I have to live with this': Kirstie Alley said she regretted appearing in bikini on Oprah Winfrey show
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Kirstie Alley once admitted that she regretted appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show in a bikini. Back in 2006, the late actor flaunted her slim figure on the show after losing 75 pounds. Later, in an interview she gave Larry King in 2010, she expressed her regret.
"It was my idea. I just thought if I could get myself to come out here in a bikini, then I know that I am liberated. And then I realized, "Oh my god! Now I have to live with this, the rest of my life," the 'Cheers' actress said at the time, according to the Daily Mail.
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"Let me tell you something very stupid about myself," the actress said. "This is what I said when I did that: no one is allowed to take photographs. And I thought, well, there's no photographs, so this will be the end. I'll walk out, I go blah blah blah, and that's the end of that."
"So stupid!" she said. "All they have to do is take a frame shot…. Little did I know that this would be all over YouTube, it's had millions of hits." King then cut in and said, "It had a life of its own", to which Alley said, "It does! It was its own show." She clarified that the idea was her own and not Oprah's, saying, "Of course it wasn't Oprah's idea — she doesn't have stupid ideas!"
Alley died at the age of 71. Her children, True and Lillie Parker, announced that she died after a short battle with cancer. Alley rose to fame in 1987 after she starred as Rebecca Howe on NBC's 'Cheers'. She was also seen on several television shows, including 'Veronica's Closet', 'Fat Actress', 'Kirstie' and 'Scream Queens'. On the big screen, she appeared in 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' (1982), 'Summer School' (1987), 'Look Who's Talking' (1989), 'It Takes Two' (1995), and 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999).
Alley's life was chronicled on the A&E reality TV series 'Kirstie Alley's Big Life' in 2010. She competed on season 12 of 'Dancing with the Stars' and 'The Masked Singer'. Alley earned a Golden Globe for best actress and an Emmy for outstanding lead actress back in 1991. She bagged her second Emmy for her portrayal of Sally Goodson in 'David's Mother' in 1994.
