Oprah Winfrey Debunks Sex-Trafficking Rumours

Media Mogul, Oprah Winfrey, has denied the rumours making the rounds on the social media that law enforcement agents raided her home and she was arrested.

The 66-year-old talk show host became one of Twitter’s top trending topics on Tuesday night after rumours began circulating that she, along with a few other celebrities, had been arrested for sex trafficking.

However, after receiving news of the rumours, Winfrey took to Twitter Wednesday to dispel them.

Addressing the tweets, she told her 42.8 million followers: “Just got a phone call that my name is trending, and being trolled for some awful fake thing.”

“It’s not true,” she added, “Haven’t been raided or arrested.”

She signed off the post by reminding her followers that she was doing her part to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by practicing social distancing.

“Just sanitizing and self-distancing with the rest of the world. Stay safe everybody,” she said.

CNN has reached out to Winfrey’s representatives for further comment.

Oprah appears to be the latest celebrity victim of QAnon, a group made up of a number of individuals operating independently online, who espouse outrageous conspiracy theories that they post on every single social media platform.

Followers post fake stories of a large-scale conspiracy that pits US President Donald Trump against a global elite seeking to murder him.