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Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn’t know she had

CHICAGO -- An emotional Oprah Winfrey says that one of the most impressive things about a Milwaukee woman's discovery that the two are half-sisters is that the woman never tried to take advantage of her or sell her story. On "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired Monday, Winfrey announced that she was related to a woman identified only as Patricia. She says Patricia had known the two were related since 2007, but never went to the media or otherwise publicized her discovery.

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