Oprah Winfrey sobs watching best friend Gayle King conquer fears on Blue Origin spaceflight

Oprah Winfrey sewage affectional complete her champion friend Gayle King’s Blue Origin spaceflight Monday morning.

The erstwhile talk show big was filmed breaking down successful tears erstwhile nan rocket took disconnected pinch King, Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry and nan remainder of nan NS-31 unit inside.

Winfrey, 71, explained during nan livestream that she has “never been much proud” of her pal aft astir 50 years of friendship.

“Because this is bigger than going to abstraction for her,” Winfrey noted, adding that whenever King, 70, is connected an airplane, she ends up “in somebody’s thigh if there’s nan slightest spot of turbulence.”

The media mogul gushed that nan spaceflight would beryllium “cathartic successful truthful galore ways” for King arsenic she overcame “a wall of fear, a barrier.”

The “CBS Mornings” host, notably, kissed nan crushed upon landing and said it was “nice to beryllium backmost connected nan ground.”

Winfrey, who wore yellowish arsenic a tribute to King, wanted her friend to spell to abstraction truthful she wouldn’t “regret” nan missed opportunity later on.

She said, “I deliberation life is astir continuing to turn into nan champion of yourself and nan fullest look of yourself. And … I didn’t want to perceive astir it for nan adjacent 50 years, ‘I wish I had gone.'”

Winfrey recalled telling King, “There’s only 1 clip that each nan women are going for nan first time. There will beryllium different trips but there’s only 1 first clip truthful to be a pioneer is great.”

King was named arsenic 1 of nan members of nan historical flight successful February.

“I don’t cognize really to explicate being terrified and excited astatine nan aforesaid time. It’s for illustration really I felt astir to present a baby,” she said astatine nan time, adding that she said to her children and Winfrey earlier making nan choice.

Before nan rocket’s assistance off, King was spotted looking visibly stressed successful her high-fashion abstraction suit.

King excitedly celebrated her landing connected Monday, saying she was “still floating” and “couldn’t believe” what she had accomplished.

“The formation coach said that I americium her champion occurrence communicative … because she’s ne'er had personification do nan people that’s terrified of flying,” she gushed.

King confirmed that she was “very gladsome she did it” and didn’t person immoderate “regrets” astir going “out of [her] comfortableness zone.”

In fact, she now feels capable to “take connected anything” and mightiness moreover pierce her ears.

The journalist will “never forget” nan “peace and kindness” she felt successful abstraction during nan “oddly quiet” formation — which did see Perry, 40, singing “What a Wonderful World.”

The “Firework” vocalist besides had a typical impermanent successful attendance erstwhile she took off, pinch her 4-year-old daughter, Daisy, watching from Texas.

Perry brought 1 of her small one’s namesake flowers into abstraction to grant her.