Oprah Winfrey was in tears watching her longtime pal Gayle King launch into area as a part of a current all-female Blue Origin expedition. However it wasn't as a result of she feared for King's security.

"When folks noticed her crying, folks stated, 'Oh, she's so apprehensive. She thinks one thing's gonna occur," the CBS Mornings cohost, 70, just lately advised E! Information. However "that wasn't it in any respect," King defined.

"She was crying as a result of she knew what it took for me to try this, and so once I got here [back] she was saying, 'I'm so happy with you. You probably did that, and I'm so happy with you,'" she continued, remembering, "She was so welled up."

Blue Origin, an aerospace firm based in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, has now accomplished 11 crewed flights which have crossed the Kármán line, conventionally thought to be the border between Earth's environment and outer area. King's flight additionally included Katy Perry and Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sánchez. Previous flights have included celebrities like Michael Strahan and William Shatner.

Whereas the one crashes on report for Blue Origin occurred with uncrewed flights, followers voiced their concern for King, Perry, and the remainder of the crew's security forward of the April 14 flight.

However King was capable of relaxation simple, as a result of Winfrey was capable of relaxation simple. "She all the time stated I used to be gonna be okay," the broadcaster famous, including, "and Oprah is aware of issues.”

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The all-female Blue Origin expedition courted a great deal of controversy, to the shock of its members.

Celebrities from Olivia Wilde to Jessica Chastain criticized the expedition for plenty of causes, from the exorbitant value to the obvious referendum on modern feminism that it provoked.

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"Billion {dollars} purchased some good memes I suppose," Wilde wrote on her Instagram Story the day of the launch.

Olivia Munn elaborated additional on her distaste for the expedition, saying throughout an look on TODAY With Jenna & Buddies, "I do know that is most likely not the cool factor to say, however there are such a lot of different issues which are so vital on the planet proper now… What are you guys gonna do up in area? What are you doing up there?"

Chastain shared an opinion piece printed in The Guardian to her X account on April 17 bearing the headline, "The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism."

King defended the expedition, saying that Blue Origin's objective isn’t rooted in vainness or wastefulness, however "to determine a technique to harness the waste right here and determine a technique to put it in area, to make the planet Earth a greater place."

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