"She wanted to make the interview as dramatic as possible so she could promote her new tv station,” Halperin quotes an alleged former Harpo employee.

"Her tears were fake. She put a chemical in her eye to make her cry. She has used that technique before on her show."

Then Halperin writes that the story is "develping" (sic) but this was four days ago.

The world's most powerful human being -- at least according to Chris Rock -- got weepy when talking about what Gayle King means to her on an hourlong promotion Walters did for her fellow ABC powerhouse.

"She is the mother I never had," Oprah sniffed. "She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. "I don't know a better person. I don't know a better person."

O's waterworks provided comic gold to Jimmy Kimmel last week, whose staff produced this video last week. Check it out.



Here's the original clip.