Oprah Gives Health Update After Gayle King Reveals TMI On Air

Gayle King spilled a little too much information about her BFF Oprah Winfrey on live air, and the two are now clearing things up.

King, 69, says she was "surprised" by the headlines resulting from her comments on CBS Mornings that Winfrey, 70, had a "serious" stomach ailment and couldn't make her scheduled appearance on the show because she was in the hospital.

”She had some kind of stomach thing — stomach flu — where stuff was coming out of both ends. I won’t get too graphic,” King told viewers on Tuesday, June 11. “But needless to say, she ended up in the hospital, dehydration, she had an IV. So it was a very serious thing.”

After her words went viral, the morning news anchor jumped on a video conference with Winfrey later that day to clarify.

“I never said you were hospitalized. I did say that you had a stomach [bug], and something was coming out of both sides, which it was,” King said in the video call she posted on Instagram.

“I was in the emergency room, I was so dehydrated,” Winfrey responded. “I had a dry mouth and I couldn’t keep enough water down to get hydrated, so I went to the emergency room for that, and that’s just it.”

King mentioned that her longtime buddy still appeared "weakish" and wasn't back to 100%.

“I’m not 100, I’m on my way to 100,” Winfrey updated.

The media mogul also revealed that five individuals in her household had contracted the same stomach sickness, and she advised everyone to wash their hands frequently.

“The doctor told me that it lives on the door knobs and railings for like ten hours,” said Winfrey.

video via Entertainment Tonight and Gayle King instagram