After that shocking revelation about Oprah's long lost sister Patricia, a man named Reginald Chevalier has surfaced claiming to be Oprah's ex-boyfriend.

According to Gawker website, an exclusive Kitty Kelly article, shortly after the paperback publication of Oprah: A Biography was released, a man named Reginal Chevalier, a Haitian Film Maker sent her an email introducing himself as Miss O's ex-boyfriend stating :

"How come you didn't find me?" he teased. "I was Oprah's lover back in the 1980's and lived with her for four months before Stedman came on the scene."

Kitty Kelly found that email to have too many specifications to ignore so it wasn't tossed to the trash. Instead, she responded to that email and turned out to be real. She attempted to contact Oprah's publicist to get a validation but her calls weren't returned.

In this article, a few of Oprah's ex's were mentioned including Muzak Musician John Tesh, when they worked together in Nashville, and retired radio disc jockey Tim Watts, the married man who was the love of her life for four years in Baltimore. There was also a brief fling with Randy Cook, who lived with Oprah for a few months and described himself as her drug procurer. Hmmm, she had quite a few.

According to Chevalier's story (might be true and might be not. Who knows? It's only him and Oprah who knows the real truth and Gayle as well maybe or Stedman too) he met Oprah when he appeared on her show in 1985. "She was doing a segment on look-alikes and at the time Reginald looked like Billy Dee Williams. She later confided that she instructed her producers to keep him backstage after the show. She threatened to fire them, if he got away. She took him to lunch at the Water Tower restaurant and ordered stuffed mashed potatoes for both of them." Their affair began that day.

He continued :

I remember how she loved taking candle-lit baths before going to bed. We took lots of them together. We spent many nights together in her new condo which she loved so much. I would be watching TV and she would be working on her next day's show. Besides going to restaurants for lunches and dinners, to stores to buy gifts for employees and friends—-Oprah is generous with stuff-we would go to the Bears games because I was friends with one of the players. We occasionally had dinner with Michael Jordan and his wife, Juanita, or with Danny Glover, [Oprah's co-star in The Color Purple.]

I noticed a few times she would bring up the subject of marriage and ask me if this was something I believed in. I think at that time Oprah was ready to take the plunge, and I was the chosen one… but I wasn't interested in getting serious…. Oprah took me to her mother's house for dinner in Milwaukee and that's where I met Jeffrey, her gay brother [who died of AIDS in 1989]. Oprah said to him, "You stay away from this guy. He's mine."

He was 25 years old then and Oprah was 32, but he said the age difference didn't matter to either of them. He accompanied Oprah to the Chicago premiere of The Color Purple.

"Oprah bought a purple mink coat for the occasion and wanted me to wear purple mink as well but I just couldn't do it." Their photo appeared in the Chicago newspapers. "If you look carefully, you can see part of Gayle King's face in the lower left of the picture," he said. "Gayle was always around. Everywhere we went she was there. She was Oprah's shadow."

Chevalier has fond recollections of his time with Oprah, although he admits that she's a much more reserved, calculating person off-camera than the warm, embracing person she presents on her show. "Things came crashing to a halt in April 1986," he recalled. "I had been out of town on a modeling assignment and when I returned to the Water Tower condo, my key wouldn't work. The concierge informed me that the locks had been changed. Oprah had left a box for me filled with all my belongings. On a yellow envelope she had written: ‘Sorry, things aren't working between us. Oprah Winfrey.' That was it. No phone call. No good-bye. Nothing. She was as cold as ice…. A few weeks later Stedman was on the scene—full time."

Reference : Gawker.com Kitty Kelly Article