Oprah with Belle Burden on the Collapse of Her 20 Year Marriage & Her Bestselling Memoir

It’s the new memoir that has captured the attention of women and as Oprah describes, “everyone is talking about it." From the outside, Belle Burden seemed to have the perfect life: three thriving kids, a happy marriage and a summer home on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Then, one day, she gets a phone call that shatters everything she believed to be true about her marriage and her life. Oprah sits down with Belle to talk about the devastation that followed the shocking end of her marriage and how she slowly rebuilt her life into something better than she could have imagined. Drawing on revelations shared in her New York Times bestseller, Strangers: A Memoir of a Marriage, Belle tells Oprah how her prestigious family pedigree couldn’t protect her from the pain of divorce. She also explains how sharing her story has empowered her to become the person she was meant to be.BUY THE BOOK!https://amzn.to/4h0FihHVote now to support The Oprah Podcast for the Webby Awardshttps://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2026/podcasts/individual-episode/interview-or-talk-show00:00:00 - Welcome Belle Burden, author of ‘Strangers’00:03:30 - Belle learning of her husband’s affair00:12:10 - After learning of the affair00:16:00 - Being told she was crazy00:17:48 - Telling their kids00:25:00 - The search for why00:26:15 - Is divorce worse than death?00:27:40 - The shame of being left00:30:35 - Why she wrote the NYT essay00:34:00 - Her path forward00:35:35 - Why she wrote the book00:36:30 - What she hopes her book gives other women00:38:50 - Her prenup00:42:36 - Belle’s mother Amanda joins00:46:15 - He didn’t want joint custody00:49:20 - What she had to do every day00:53:30 - How she feels now01:01:22 - Belle on her bookFollow Oprah Winfrey on Social:https://www.instagram.com/oprahpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/Listen to the full podcast:https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLIhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381